OF 


C'C 


BOOKBINDING  CO. 


LAWS  OF  MAINE 


RELATING  TO 


PUBLIC  SCHOOLS 


1913 


Compiled  by  the  State  Superintendent  and  printed  agree- 
ably to  An  Act  approved  March  13,  1889 


WATERVILLE 

SENTINEL  PUBLISHING  COMPANY 
1913 


This  pamphlet  will  be  sent  free  on  application  to  the  State  Superin- 
tendent of  Public   Schools,  Augusta,  Maine. 


CONTENTS 

PAGES 

Education  of  Youth   (Chap.  15,  R.  S.  1903  as  amended)    3-47 

Location    of    Schools    3-6 

Duties    of    Towns 6-10 

Admission    to    Schools     10 

Certificate   of   Municipal    Officers    •• n 

Election  of   Superintending   School   Committees    11-12 

Power    and    Duties    of    Superintending    School    Committees 

and     Superintendents     •  • .    12-16 

Superintendence  of  Schools  through  the  Union  of  Towns..   16-19 

Compulsory    Education I9~23 

Instruction   in    Secondary    Schools    23-33 

Duties   and  Qualifications  of   Instructors    •'• 33~34 

School   Holidays 34~35 

Teachers'   Associations    •  • 35-36 

Schools  in  Plantations  and  Unorganized  Townships     36-38 

State    Superintendent  of   Public   Schools    39-41 

Normal  Schools  and  Madawaska    Training  School 41-43 

Instruction   for  the   Blind    •  • 44 

Penal    Provisions    Affecting    Schools     44~45 

State    School    Funds 45-47 

Funds  from  Sale  of  Timberlands  (Chap.  7,  Sec.  65,  R.  S.  1903)..   47 

Instruction  in  Forestry    (Chap.  7,   Sec.  65,  R.  S.   1903) 47 

Maine  School  for  the  Deaf   (Chap.  446,  P.  &  S.   1897) 47-48 

Summer  Training  Schools  and  Distribution  of  Educational  Docu- 
ments   ( Chap.    188,    Res.    1901 ).....' 40 

Care  and  Education  of  the  Feeble  Minded   (Chap,  44,  P.  L.  1907 

as    amended) 49-52 

Steam  Plants  in  Public  Buildings   (Chap.  82,  P.  L.  1907) 52-54 

Local    History    and    Local     Geography     in    the    Public     Schools 

(Chap.  88,  P.  L.  1907  as  amended) ' 55-56 

State   Superintendent   of    Public    Schools    (Chap.    171,    P.   L.    1907 

as    amended) 56 

Flags  for  Schools    (Chap.  182  P.   L.   1907) 57 

Flag  of  the  State  of  Maine  (Chap.   19,  P.  L.  1909) 57 

Welfare   of   School   Children    (Chap.  31,   P.    L.    1909) 58 

Secondary  Instruction  for  Youths  resident  in  Unorganized  Town- 
ships   (Chap.    62,    P.    L.    1909) 58-59 

Improvement  of  Free  High  Schools   (Chap.  71,  P.  L.  1909) 59-61 

Appointment  of  School  Physicians  (Chap.  73,  P.  L.   1909) 61-63 

School  Buildings   (Chap.  88,  P.  L.  1909  as  amended) 63-64 

Safeguarding  of   Schools   against  Danger  from  Fire    (Chap.   100, 
P.    L.     1909) 64 


293247 


PAGES 

Protection  of  Life  in  Buildings  used  for  Public  Purposes   (Chap. 

28,  Sec.  37,  R.  S.  1903  as  amended) 64-65 

Common  School  Fund  (Chap.  177,  P.  L.   1909) 65-66 

Equalization    of    School    Privileges    (Chap.    198,    P.    L.    1909    as 

amended) 66-67 

Employment   of  Women  and  Children   in   Manufacturing  or   Me- 
chanical Establishments  (Chap.  40,  Sees.  48-54,  R.  S.  1903) 67-73 

Encouragement  of   Industrial   Education    (Chap.    188,    P.   L.    1911, 

as    amended) 74-~6 

Jurats  of  Town  Officers  on  Returns   (Chap.  15,  P.  L.  1913) 77 

Secret  Societies  in  the  Public  Schools  (Chap.  34,  P.  L.  1913) 77 

State  Certification  of  all  Teachers  <  f   Public   Schools    (Chap.  58 

P.    L.    1913) •• 77-79 

Pensions  for  Teachers  of  Long  Service  (Chap.  75,  P.  L.  1913) 79-8t 


LAWS  OF  MAINE 

RELATING    TO 

PUBLIC  SCHOOLS 
1913 

Being  Chapter  15,  Revised  Statutes  of  1903,  (and  subsequent 
amendments  thereto)  together  with  certain  other  parts  of  the 
Revised  Statutes  and  those  PubSc  Laws  of  1905,  1907,  1909, 
1911,  and  1913,  governing  the  management  of  all  public  schools 
except  those  in  districts  organized  with  special  powers  by  acts 
of  Legislature. 

(Enactments  of  1913  are 'effective  July  n,  1913.) 


CHAPTER  15 

EDUCATION  OF  YOUTH. 

LOCATION   OF   SCHOOLS. 

SEC.   i.     The   school   districts  in   all  towns   in  the  state  are 
abolished.     Provided,  however,  that  school  districts  organized 
with  special  powers  by  act  of  the  legislature  may  retain  such 
organization  and  special  powers ;  but  said  districts  shall  annually  bygactZof 
on  or  before  the  first  day  of  June,  by  their  agents,  trustees  or  1893,  c.  216, 
directors,  submit  to  the  school  committees  of  their  several  towns 
estimates  of  the  amounts  required  for  the  maintenance  of  the 
schools  therein,  other  than   free  high  schools,  for  the  ensuing  __how 
school  year,  and  shall  be  entitled  to  such  portion  of  the  common 
school  funds  of  the  town  as  said  committees  shall  determine,  be 
which  sum  shall  not  be  less  than  is  necessary  for  the  mainte- 
nance of  their  schools  for  a  period  equal  to  that  of  the  other 
schools  of  the  town;  and  provided  further,  that  the  corporate 
powers  of  every  school  district  shall  continue  so  far  as  the  same 
may  be  necessary  for  meeting  its  liabilities  and   enforcing  its 
rights ;  and  any  property  held  in  trust  by  any  school  district  by  Si 
virtue  of  a  gift,  devise  or  bequest  for  the  benefits  of  said  district  q 
shall  continue  to  be  held  and  used  according  to  the  terms  thereof, 


SCHOOL   LAWS   OF   MAINE. 


No  change 
in  location  of 
any  school 
legally  es- 
tablished. 
1893,  c.  216, 
§3. 
1901,  c.  203. 


— towns  may 
determine 
number  and 
location  on 
recommen- 
dation of 
school  com- 
mittee. 


— operation 
of  schools 
with  few 
scholars  may 
be  suspended. 
1903,  c.  66. 
1913,  c.  148. 


— superin- 
tendent shall 
procure  con- 
veyance for 
scholars. 
1907,  c.  90. 


— committee 
may  author- 
ize board 
instead  of 
providing 
conveyance. 


Towns  may 
lay  out 
school  house 
lots  in  cer- 
tain cases. 
R.  S.,  c.  11, 
§  57. 

1901,  c.  211, 
II. 

— damages, 
how  ap- 
praised. 


SEC.  2.  The  location  of  any  school  -legally  established  prior 
to  March  seventeen,  eighteen  hundred  and  ninety-three  con- 
tinues unchanged,  notwithstanding  the  district  is  abolished;  but 
any  town  at  its  annual  meeting,  or  at  a  meeting  called  for  the 
purpose,  may  determine  the  number  and  location  of  its  schools, 
and  may  discontinue  them  or  change  their  location;  but  such 
discontinuance  or  change  of  location  shall  be  made  only  on  the 
written  recommendation  of  the  superintending  school  committee, 
and  on  conditions  proper  to  preserve  the  just  rights  and  priv- 
ileges of  the  inhabitants  for  whose  benefits  such  schools  were 
established;  provided,  however,  that  in  case  any  school  shall 
hereafter  have  too  few  scholars  for  its  profitable  maintenance, 
the  superintending  school  committee  may  suspend  the  operation 
of  such  school  for  not  more  than  one  year  unless  otherwise 
instructed  by  the  town,  but  any  public  school  failing  to  maintain 
an  average  attendance  for  any  school  year,  of  at  least  eight 
pupils,  shall  be  and  hereby  is  suspended,  unless  the  town  in 
which  said  school  is  located  shall  by  vote,  at  the  annual  meeting, 
or  at  a  meeting  called  for  that  purpose,  after  the  said  commit- 
tee shall  have  made  a  written  recommendation  to  that  effect, 
instruct  its  superintending  school  committee  to  maintain  said 
school.  The  superintendent  of  schools  in  each  town  shall  pro- 
cure the  conveyance  of  all  common  school  pupils  residing  in 
his  town,  a  part  or  the  whole  of  the  distance,  to  and  from  the 
nearest  suitable  school,  for  the  number  of  weeks  for  which 
schools  are  maintained  in  each  year,  when  such  pupils  reside 
at  such  distance  from  the  said  school  as  in  the  judgment  of  the 
superintending  school  committee  shall  render  such  conveyance 
necessary.  Provided,  however,  that  the  superintending  school 
committee  may  authorize  the  superintendent  of  schools,  to  pay 
the  board  of  any  pupil  or  pupils  at  a  suitable  place  near  any 
established  school  instead  of  providing  conveyance  for  said 
pupil  or  pupils,  when  in  their  judgment  it  may  be  done  at  an 
equal  or  less  expense  than  by  conveyance. 

SEC.  3.  When  a  location  for  the  erection  or  removal  of  a 
schoolhouse  and  requisite  buildings  has  been  legally  designated, 
by  vote  of  town  at  any  town  meeting  called  for  that  purpose 
and  the  owner  thereof  refuses  to  sell,  or,  in  the  opinion  of 
the  municipal  officers,  asks  an  unreasonable  price  for  it,  or 
resides  without  the  state  and  has  no  authorized  agent  or  attor- 
ney therein,  they  may  lay  out  a  schoolhouse  lot,  not  exceeding 


SCHOOL  LAWS   OF   MAINE. 

three  acres,  and  appraise  the  damages  therefor;  and  on  payment  ~"how  paid- 

or  tender  of  such  damages,  or  if  such  owner  does  not  reside  in 

the  state,  upon  depositing  such  damages  in  the  treasury  of  such 

town  for  his  use,  the  town  designating  it  may  take  such  lot  to 

be  held  and  used   for  the  purpose  aforesaid;  and  when  such  revert  to 

schoolhouse  has  ceased  to  be  thereon  for  two  years,  said  lot  occupied  "o 

.  .  A  two  years. 

reverts  to  the  owner,  his  heirs  or  assigns.     And  any  town  or 

city  may  take  real  estate  for  the  enlargement  or  extension  of 

any  location  designated  for  the  erection  or  removal  of  a  school-  j^ 

house  and  requisite  buildings  and  playgrounds,  as  herein  pro- 

vided;  but  no  real  estate  shall  be  so  taken  within  fifty  feet  of  a f*J5ot wtt&. 

dwelling-house,  and  all  schoolhouse  lots  and  playgrounds  that 

require  fencing  shall  be  fenced  by  the  town  or  city. 

SEC.  4.     If  the  owner  is  aggrieved  at  the  location  of  the  lot, 
or  the  damages  awarded,  he  may  apply  to  the  county  commis-  lusuc.  11, 
sioners  within  six  months,  who  may  change  the  location  and  IQOI',  c.  211, 
assess  the  damages.     If  the  damages  are  increased,  or  the  loca- 
tion changed,  such  town  or  district  shall  pay  the  damages  and 
costs ;  otherwise  the  costs  shall  be  paid  by  the  applicant. 

SEC.  5.     If  any  town  or  school  district,  by  its  officers  or  by  a  f0ctg°elro°-use 
committee,   has   designated,   located   and   described   a  lot   upon  ^us  loca" 
which  to  erect,  move  or  repair  a  schoolhouse,  and  from  mi  stake —how  re- 
or  omission  has  failed  to  comply  with  the  law,  whereby  such  a^d^adT1 
location  has  been  rendered  invalid,  three  legal  voters  and  tax-Ras.',  c.  n, 

§  59 

payers  thereof  may  apply  in  writing  to  the  selectmen  of  said 
town,  and  have  the  lot,  so  designated  or  described,  re-appraised 
by  them. 

SEC.  6.  The  selectmen  of  any  town  to  whom  such  appli- 
cation  has  been  made,  shall  forthwith  give  not  less  than  seven 
nor  more  than  twenty  days'  notice  to  the  clerk  of  said  town  or 
district  and  to  the  owner  of  such  real  estate,  or  to  the  persons 
having  the  same  in  charge,  of  the  time  and  place  by  them  fixed 
for  such  hearing,  and  shall,  after  examination  and  hearing  of 
all  interested,  appraise  the  lot  as  set  out  and  affix  a  fair  value 
thereon,  exclusive  of  improvements  made  by  said  district  or 
town,  either  by  buildings  or  otherwise;  and  shall,  as  soon  as 
practicable,  notify  the  town  or  district  clerk,  and  the  persons 
interested  in  said  estate  who  had  been  notified  as  hereinbefore 
provided,  of  the  sum  at  which  said  lots  had  been  appraised. 


SCHOOL,   LAWS    OF    MAINE). 


Sum  how 
assessed  and 
collected. 
R.  8.,  c.  11, 


Tender  to  be 
allowed  in 
payment. 
R.  S.,  c.  11, 
§  62. 


Either  party 
may  appeal. 
R.  S.,  c.  11, 
§63. 


Improve- 
ments inure 
to  town  or 
district, 
R.  S.,  c.  11, 
§64. 


Tax  not 
affected  by 
error  in 
location. 
R.  S.,  c.  11, 
§65. 

Plan  to  be 
approved  by 
committee. 
R.  S.,  c.  11, 
§66. 


SEC.  7.  The  sum  fixed  as  the  value  of  said  lot  shall  be 
assessed,  collected  and  paid  over  as  other  school  money. 

SEC.  8.  Any  sum  which  has  been  tendered  and  is  in  the 
hands  or  under  the  control  of  the  persons  owning  or  having 
charge  of  such  land,  shall  be  allowed  in  payment  of  said 
appraisal. 

SEC.  9.  If  the  town  or  district,  or  persons  owning  or  having 
charge  of  the  land  on  which  such  location  is  made,  are  dissatis- 
fied with  such  appraisal,  either  party  may  within  ten  days  appeal 
to  the  county  commissioners  of  the  county  in  which  the  land 
lies,  by  filing  a  copy  of  the  proceedings  and  a  claim  of  appeal 
with  said  commissioners,  and  the  determination  of  a  majority 
of  said  commissioners  not  residents  of  said  town,  shall  be  final. 

SEC.  10.  When  any  school  district  or  town  has  erected  or 
moved  a  building  upon  such  lot  or  in  any  way  improved  the 
same,  such  improvement  shall  inure  to  the  benefit  of  such  town 
or  district,  and  the  same  may  be  as  completely  occupied  and 
controlled  by  such  town  or  district  as  it  would  have  been  if 
such  location  had  been  in  strict  conformity  to  law. 

SEC.  ii.  The  legality  of  a  tax  assessed  to  build,  repair  or 
move  a  schoolhouse  and  to  pay  for  a  lot,  shall  not  be  affected  by 
any  mistake  or  error  in  the  designation  or  location  thereof. 

*SEC.  12.  A  plan  for  the  erection  or  reconstruction  of  a 
schoolhouse  voted  by  a  town,  shall  first  be  approved  by  the 
superintending  school  committee  and  in  case  no  special  build- 
ing committee  has  been  chosen  by  the  town,  said  superintending 
school  committee  shall  have  charge  of  said  erection  or  recon- 
struction; provided,  hozuever,  that  they  may  if  they  see  fit, 
delegate  said  power  and  duty  to  the  superintendent  of  schools. 


Towns  to 
raise  money 
for  schools. 
R.  S.,  c.  11, 
§6. 

1903,  c.  165. 
1907,  c.  111. 
1909,  c.  128. 


DUTIES   OF  TOWNS. 

**SEC.  13.  Every  town  shall  raise  and  expend,  annually,  for 
the  support  of  common  schools  therein,  exclusive  of  the  income 
of  any  corporate  school  fund,  or  of  any  grant  from  the  revenue 
or  fund  from  the  state,  or  of  any  voluntary  donation,  devise  or 
bequest,  or  of  any  forfeiture  accruing  to  the  use  of  schools,  not 


*  See  also  An  Act  relative  to  School  Buildings,  Chap. 
**  See  also  Section  6  of  Chapter  177,  P.  L.,  1909. 


?,  P.  L.,  1909. 


SCHOOL  LAWS   OF   MAINE. 

less  than  eighty  cents  for  each  inhabitant,  according  to  the 
census  by  which  representatives  to  the  legislature  were  last 
apportioned,  under  penalty  of  forfeiting  not  less  than  twice  nor 
more  than  four  times  the  amount  of  its  deficiency,  and  all 
moneys  provided  by  towns,  or  apportioned  by  the  state  for  the 
support  of  common  schools,  shall  be  expended  for  the  mainte 
nance  of  common  schools  established  and  controlled  by  the 

.  .     —  does  not 

towns  by  which  said  moneys  are  provided,  or  to  which   said  annul  pro- 
moneys  are  apportioned  ;  but  nothing  in  this  section  shall  be  so  of^}^ment 
construed  as  to  annul,  or  render  void,  the  provisions  made  in  J^Jg^;  48> 
section  eighteen  of  this  chapter  for  the  establishment  and  main-  §  l- 
tenance  of  union  schools  by  adjoining  towns. 

SEC.  14.     All   towns   incorporated   since    seventeen   hundred  by  towns11" 
and  eighty-eight,  not  formerly  parts  of  other  towns,  which  f  ail  accounf'for 


to  account  for  the  permanent  school  fund  arising  from  sale 
lease  of  school  lands  in  said  towns,  shall  annually  raise  and 
expend  for  the  maintenance  of  common  schools  not  less  than 
forty-five  dollars  in  addition  to  the  amount  required  by  law  to 
be  raised  and  expended  for  the  support  of  said  schools. 

SEC.  15.     No  money  appropriated  by  law  for  public  schools  ^JjJUJjJ  how 
shall  be  paid  from  the  treasury  of  any  town,  except  upon  writ-jjj^j* 
ten  order  of  its  municipal  officers  ;  and  no  such  order  shall  be  F^f;1  c-  llf 
drawn  by  said  officers  except  upon  presentation  of  a  properly  §9£  5'  c'  48' 
avouched  bill  of  items  said  bill  of  items  having  first  been  ap- 


proved by  a  majority  of  members  of  the  superintending  school  ed 
committee  and  certified  by  the  superintendent  of  schools.  The 
unexpended  balance  of  all  moneys  raised  by  towns,  or  received 
from  the  state,  for  the  payment  of  wages  and  board  of  teachers, 
fuel,  janitors'  services,  conveyance  or  tuition  and  board  of 
scholars,  shall  be  credited  to  the  school  resources  for  the  year 
following  that  in  which  said  unexpended  balance  occurred.  This 
clause,  relating  to  unexpended  balances  shall  not  apply  to  cities. 

SEC.  16.  When  the  governor  and  council  have  reason  to  school  fund 
believe  that  a  town  has  neglected  to  raise  and  expend  the  school  tobe'with?* 
money  required  by  law,  or  to  employ  teachers  certified  as  re-  delinquent 

towns. 

quired  by  law,  or  to  have  instruction  given  in  the  subjects  pre-R-  s.,  c.  11, 
scribed  by  law,  or  to  provide  suitable  textbooks  in  the  subjects  }%&>  c-  <£. 

lyOo,  c.  4oj 

prescribed  by  law,  or  faithfully  to  expend  the  school  money  re-  19^9  c  5Q 
ceived  from  the  state,  or  in  any  way,  to  comply  with  the  law  1913>>  c-  lgi- 


SCHOOL   LAWS   OF   MAINE. 


Same  aggre- 
gate annual 
length  of 
terms. 
1893,  c.  216, 
§5. 
1909,  c.  29. 


Union 
schools 
may  be 
maintained 
by  adjoining 
towns. 
1893,  c.  216, 
§6. 


— manage- 
ment of  such 
schools. 


Towns  shall 
expend 
school  fund. 
1905,  c.  48, 
§  4. 


prescribing  the  duties  of  towns  in  relation  to  public  schools,  they 
shall  direct  the  treasurer  of  state  to  withhold  from  the  appor- 
tionment of  state  school  funds  made  to  that  town  such  amount 
as  they  may  deem  expedient  and  the  amount  so  withheld  shall 
not  be  paid  until  such  town  shall  satisfy  said  governor  and  coun- 
cil that  it  has  expended  the  full  amount  of  school  money  as  re- 
quired by  law  and  that  it  has  complied  in  all  ways  with  the 
law  prescribing  the  duties  of  towns  in  relation  to  public  schools, 
and  whenever  such  town  shall  fail,  within  the  year  for  which 
the  apportionment  is  made,  so  to  satisfy  the  governor  and  council 
the  said  amount  withholden  shall  be  forfeited  and  shall  be  added 
to  the  permanent  school  fund  for  the  year  next  succeeding. 

SEC.  17.  The  school  moneys  of  every  town  shall  be  so  ex- 
pended as  to  give  as  nearly  as  practicable  the  same  aggregate 
annual  length  of  terms  in  all  its  schools,  and  every  town  shall 
make  provision  for  the  maintenance  of  all  its  schools  for  not 
less  than  twenty-six  weeks  annually.  Any  town  failing  to 
maintain  its  schools  as  provided  in  this  section,  shall  be  debarred 
from  drawing  its  state  school  moneys,  till  it  shall  have  made 
suitable  provisions  for  so  maintaining  them  thereafter. 

SEC.  18.  Adjoining  towns,  upon  the  written  recommenda- 
tion of  the  school  committee  of  said  towns,  may  by  concurrent 
action  maintain  union  schools  for  the  benefit  of  parts  of  said 
towns  constituting  on  March  one,  eighteen  hundred  and  ninety- 
four,  union  school  districts,  or  may  establish  such  schools,  and 
shall  contribute  to  their  support  each  in  proportion  to  the  num- 
ber of  scholars  in  each  of  said  towns  attending  such  schools. 
Said  school  shall  be  under  the  management  of  the  school  com- 
mittee of  the  town  in  which  their  schoolhouses  are  located. 

*SEC.  19.  Towns  shall  expend  the  entire  amount  of  the 
school  fund  and  mill  tax  received  from  the  state,  together  with 
the  amounts  arising  from  the  eighty  cents  per  capita,  as  pro- 
vided in  section  thirteen  of  said  chapter  fifteen  and  the  funds 
arising  from  the  various  sources  enumerated  in  the  first  four 
lines  of  section  thirteen  of  said  chapter  and  the  funds  arising 
from  the  provisions  of  section  fourteen  of  said  chapter,  for 
the  payment  of  teachers'  wages  and  board,  fuel,  janitors'  ser- 
vices, conveyance  of  scholars  and  tuition  and  board  of  scholars, 


*  See  also  Section  6,  Chapter  177,  P.  L.,  1909. 


SCHOOL  LAWS   OF   MAINE. 

as  provided  in  section  two  and  section  fifty  of  said  chapter  fif-__ghallpro_ 
teen  and  shall  provide  school  books,  apparatus  and  appliances 
for  the  use  of  pupils  in  the  public  schools,  including  all  free  high 
schools,  at  the  expense  of  said  town;  and  shall  also  pay  f or  fglv,  c.  260. 
the  necessary  repairs  of  school  buildings  and  insurance  on  same, 
if  any,  improvement  and  maintenance  of  school  yards  and  play- 
grounds out  of  a  sum  or  sums  of  money  raised  and  appropriated 
for  that  purpose  which  shall  be  assessed  like  other  money  and 
shall  be  in  addition  to  and  independent  of  the  amount  which 
towns  are  required  by  law  to  raise,  assess  and  expend  for  the 
support  of  common  schools;  provided,  however,  that  any  parent 
or  guardian  of  any  pupil  in  the  public  schools  may,  at  his  own 
expense,  procure  for  the  separate  and  exclusive  use  of  such 
pupil,  the  text-books  required  to  be  used  in  such  schools  and 
no  second  hand  books  shall  be  purchased  for  the  use  of  any 
school;  any  person  violating  this  provision  shall  forfeit  not  handbooks, 
exceeding  five  hundred  dollars,  to  be  recovered  in  an  action  of 
debt  by  any  school  officer  or  person  aggrieved. 

SEC.  20.     School  committees  shall  make  such  rules  and  regu-  Digtribution 
lations  not  repugnant  to  law,  as  they  deem  proper,  for  the  dis- j|^900^  ®*c 
tribution  and  preservation  of  school  books  and  appliances  fur-  §  2- 
nished  at  the  expense  of  the  town. 

SEC.  21.  When  a  pupil  in  the  public  schools  loses,  destroys, 
or  unnecessarily  injures  any  such  school  book  or  appliance,  f ur- 
nished  such  pupil  at  the  expense  of  said  town,  his  parent  orftes'.,  c.  11, 
guardian  shall  be  notified,  and  if  the  loss  or  damage  is  not  made 
good  to  the  satisfaction  of  such  committee  within  a  reasonable 
time,  they  shall  report  the  case  to  the  assessors,  who  shall 
include  in  the  next  town  tax  of  the  delinquent  parent  or  guar- 
dian the  value  of  the  book  or  appliance  so  lost,  destroyed  or 
injured,  to  be  assessed  and  collected  as  other  town  taxes. 

*SEC.  22.     Any  city  or  town  may,  in  addition  to  the  sumEvening 
raised  for  the  support  of  the  common  schools,  raise  and  appro-  i889?Lc!  246. 
priate  money  for  the  support  of  evening  schools,  which  shall 
admit    persons   of   any   age,    shall   teach   only   the    elementary 
branches,  and  shall  be  under  the  direction  and  supervision  of 
the  superintending  school  committee. 

*  See   also  An  Act   for   the   encouragement   of   Industrial   Education, 
Chapter  1 88,  P.  L,.,  191 1. 


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SCHOOL   LAWS   OF   MAINS. 


Instruction 
in  industrial 
or  mechani- 
cal drawing. 
R.  S.,  c.  11, 
§  11. 


Manual 
training 
schools. 
1901,  c.  234, 
§  §  1,  5. 


*SEC.  23.  Any  city  or  town  may  annually  make  provision 
for  free  instruction  in  industrial  or  mechanical  drawing,  to  per- 
sons over  fifteen  years  of  age,  either  in  day  or  evening  schools, 
under  direction  of  the  superintending  school  committee. 

*SEc.  24.  Any  city  or  town  may,  in  addition  to  the  sum 
raised  for  the  support  of  the  common  schools,  raise  and  appro- 
priate money  for  the  support  of  manual  training  schools  and 
may  receive  gifts  and  bequests  for  the  use,  maintenance  and 
support  of  such  schools. 


Direction, 
rules  and 
regulations 
of  such 
schools. 
1901,  c.  234, 
§  §2,3,4. 


Scholars  at 
light  stations, 
fog  warn  Lag 
stations,  or 
life  saving 
stations. 
1893,  c.  199. 
1911,  c.  161. 


School  age. 
1893,  c.  162. 


— attendance. 
1911,  c.  22. 


ADMISSION    TO    SCHOOLS. 

SEC.  25.  Such  schools  shall  be  under  the  control,  direction 
and  supervision  of  the  superintending  school  committee,  and 
shall  admit  such  persons  between  the  ages  of  six  and  twenty- 
one  years,  and  shall  give  such  courses  of  instruction  as  said 
committee  may  determine.  Pupils  in  such  schools  shall  be  sub- 
ject to  the  same  conditions,  rules  and  regulations  as  provided 
for  public  schools. 

SEC.  26.  Persons  between  the  ages  of  five  and  twenty-one 
years  living  at  any  light  station,  fog  warning  station,  or  life 
saving  station  shall  be  admitted  to  any  public  school  in  the 
state  without  paying  tuition ;  such  scholars  shall  be  entitled  to  all 
privileges  and  benefits,  and  be  subject  to  the  same  conditions, 
rules  and  regulations  as  scholars  residing  in  the  town  in  which 
they  attend  school. 

SEC.  27.  The  age  of  pupils  allowed  to  attend  the  public 
schools  of  the  state  is  hereby  fixed  between  the  ages  of  five 
and  twenty-one  and  every  child  between  the  said  ages  shall 
have  the  right  to  attend  the  public  schools  in  the  town  in  which 
his  parent  or  guardian  has  a  legal  residence,  subject  to  such 
reasonable  regulations  as  to  the  numbers  and  qualifications  of 
pupils  to  be  admitted  to  the  respective  schools  and  as  to  other 
school  matters  as  the  school  committee  shall  from  time  to  time 
prescribe. 


SCHOOL,  LAWS   OF   MAINE.  II 


CERTIFICATE  OF  MUNICIPAL  OFFICERS. 

SEC.  28.     The  assessors  or  municipal  officers  of  each  town,  Annual 
shall,  on  or  before  the  first  day  of  each  May,  make  to  the  state  returns  to 
superintendent  of  public  schools,  a  certificate,  under  oath,  em-  intendenter" 

.        ,    ,,  R.  S.,  c.  11, 

bracing"  the  following  items  :  §  13. 

1909    c  91 

I.  The  amount  voted  by  the  town  for  common  schools  at 
the  preceding  annual  meeting. 

II.  The  amount  of  school  moneys  payable  to  the  town  from 
the  state  treasury  during  the  year  ending  with  the  first  day  of 
the  preceding  April. 

III.  The  amount  of  money  actually  expended  for  common 
schools  during  the  preceding  fiscal  year  of  the  town. 

IV.  The  amount  of  school  moneys  unexpended  at  the  ex- 
piration of  the  preceding  fiscal  year  of  the  town. 

V.  Answers   to   such   other   inquiries    as   are   presented   to 
secure  a  full  and  complete  statement  of  school  revenues  and 
expenditures. 


ELECTION    OF   SUPERINTENDING   SCHOOL    COMMITTEES. 

SEC.  29.     Every  town  shall  choose  by  ballot  at  its  annual  Election  of  a 
meeting  a  superintending  school   committee   of  three  to  hold^j^com- 
office  as  provided  in  the  following  section  and  shall  fill  vacancies  \sf7'  c"  327> 
arising  therein  at  each  subsequent  annual  meeting.     No  person  f  §Si8fC85.1> 
is  ineligible  to  the  office  of  superintending  school  committee,  on 
account  of  sex. 

SEC.  30.     School  committees  first  chosen  shall  designate  by  Superintend- 

ing  school 

lot  a  member  or  members  to  hold  office  for  one,  two  and  three  committee, 

when  first 


years  respectively,  in  manner  as  follows  ;  one  for  one  year,  one  ^sen,  sha11 
for  two  years  and  one  for  three  years;  and  they  shall  certify  §j?£  of 
such  designation  to  the  town  clerk  to  be  by  him  recorded  ;  and  ^g|-  c-  n> 
thereafterwards  one  member  shall  be  chosen  by  ballot  at  the  |8|7'  c-  327* 
annual  meeting  of  the  town,  to  hold  office  for  three  years.    Said 
committee  may  fill  vacancies  occurring  between  annual  meet-  —vacancies: 
ings,  and  the  term  of  office  of  any  member  of  the  committee  so  —no  member 
chosen  shall  expire  at  the  next  annual  meeting.     No  member  employed  to 

teach  in  his 

of  the  superintending  school  committee  of  any  town  shall  be°wnt°wn. 
employed  as  teacher  in  any  public  school  in  said  town. 


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SCHOOL  LAWS   OF   MAINE. 


Sections  29 
and  30  shall 
not  apply  to 
certain  cities. 
1897,  c.  327, 
§3. 


Penalty  for 
neglect  to 
choose  com- 
mittee. 
R.  S.,  c.  11, 
§20. 

Committee 
shall  serve 
without  pay. 

—compensa- 
tion of 
superin- 
tendent. 
R.  S.,  c.  11, 
§92. 

1897,  c.  327, 
§2. 


SEC.  31.  The  provisions  of  the  two  preceding  sections  shall 
not  apply  to  cities  whose  charters  specify  the  methods  of  elec- 
tion and  term  of  office  of  a  superintending  school  committee  or 
board  of  education ;  nor  to  towns,  cities  and  incorporated  dis- 
tricts authorized  by  private  and  special  laws  to  choose  school 
committees  other  than  those  herein  provided  for. 

SEC.  32.  A  town  failing  to  elect  members  of  the  superintend- 
ing school  committee  as  required  by  law,  forfeits  not  less  than 
thirty,  nor  more  than  two  hundred  dollars. 

SEC.  33.  Superintending  school  committees  shall  serve  with- 
out pay,  unless  otherwise  voted  by  the  town,  but  the  superin- 
tendent shall  receive  for  his  services  such  sum  as  the  town  shall 
annually  vote  therefor,  which  sum  shall  in  no  case  be  less  than 
two  dollars  a  day  for  every  day  of  actual  service  and  necessary 
traveling  expenses. 


Management 
of  schools 
devolves 
upon  super- 
intending 
school  com- 
mittee. 
1897,  c.  332. 
1903,  c.  100. 


— discharge 
of  superin- 
tendent. 
1911,  c.  173. 
1913,  c.  78. 


Duties. 

R.  S.,  c.  11, 

§87. 

1903,  c.  184. 

1905,  c.  48, 

§5. 


POWER    AND    DUTIES    OF    SUPERINTENDING    SCHOOL    COMMITTEES 
AND    SUPERINTENDENTS. 

SEC.  34.  The  management  of  the  schools  and  the  custody 
and  care,  including  repairs  and  insurance  on  school  buildings, 
of  all  school  property  in  every  town,  shall  devolve  upon  the  su- 
perintending school  committee  which  shall  annually,  and  as 
often  as  a  vacancy  shall  occur,  elect  a  superintendent  of  schools 
who  shall  not  be  a  member  of  the  committee.  After  due  notice 
and  investigation  the  superintending  school  committee  may  for 
cause  discharge  a  superinendent  of  schools  and  after  protracted 
absence  from  duty  on  the  part  of  said  superintendent  may  de- 
clare a  vacancy  in  his  office.  This  section,  so  far  as  it  relates 
to  the  manner  of  the  election  or  employment  of  superintend- 
ents of  schools  shall  not  apply  to  cities,  nor  to  towns  authorized 
by  special  laws  to  employ  or  choose  superintendents  in  manner 
otherwise  than  as  herein  provided. 

SEC.  35.  Superintending  school  committees  shall  perform 
the  following  duties : 

I.  Direct  the  general  course  of  instruction,  and  select  a  uni- 
form system  of  text-books,  due  notice  of  which  shall  be  given; 
no  text-books  thus  introduced,  shall  be  changed  for  five  years 


SCHOOL  LAWS   OF   MAINE.  13 

unless  by  vote  of  the  town ;  any  person  violating  this  provision  Direct  the 
shall  forfeit  not  exceeding  five  hundred  dollars,  to  be  recovered  ^™cle^°tn 
in  an  action  of  debt  by  any  school  officer  or  person  aggrieved.  text-books- 
And  when  said  committee  have  made  such  selection  of  school 
books,  they  may  contract,  under  section  nineteen,  with  the  pub- 
lishers for  the  purchase  and  delivery  thereof;  make  such  rules 
as  they  deem  effectual  for  their  preservation  and  return;  ,or,  if 
they  are  kept  for  sale,  may  regulate  the  sale  and  appoint  an 
agent  to  keep  and  sell  them,  and  fix  the  retail  price,  which  shall 
be  marked  on  the  title  page  of  each  book. 

II.  They  shall  make   provision   for   the   instruction  of   all^™^ion 
pupils  in  schools  supported  by  public  money  or  under  state  con-  o^v  and01" 
trol,  in  physiology  and  hygiene,  with  special  reference  to  the  i885?nce'267, 
effects  of  alcoholic  drinks,  stimulants  and  narcotics   upon  the " 
human  system. 

III.  After  due  notice  and   investigation  they  shall  dismiss  May  dismiss 

.    .  J  teacher  for 

any  teacher,  although  having  the  requisite  certificate,  who  proves  sufficient 
unfit  to  teach,  or  whose  services  they  deem  unprofitable  to  the 
school;  and  give  to  said  teacher  a  certificate  of  dismissal  and 
of  the  reasons  therefor,  a  copy  of  which  they  shall  retain,  and 
such  dismissal  shall  not  deprive  the  teacher  of  compensation  for 
previous  services. 

IV.  Expel  any  obstinately  disobedient  and  disorderly  scholar,  scholars, 
after  a  proper  investigation  of  his  behavior,  if  found  necessary 

for  the  peace  and  usefulness  of  the  school ;  and  restore  him  on 
satisfactory  evidence  of  his  repentance  and  amendment. 

V.  Exclude,  if  they  deem  it  expedient,  any  person  not  vac-Exclude 
cinated,  although  otherwise  entitled  to  admission.  va^cinXed* 

VI.  Prescribe  the  sum,  on  payment  of  which  persons  of  thePrescribe 
required  age,  resident  on  territory,  the  jurisdiction  of  which  has  paSSin°cer- 
been  ceded  to  the  United  States,  included  in  or  surrounded  bytaincases- 
the  town,  may  attend  school  in  the  town. 

VII.  Determine   what  description  of  scholars   shall  attend  Classify 
each  school,  classify  them,  and  transfer  them  from  school  tos° 
school  where  more  than  one  school  is  kept  at  the  same  time. 


SCHOOL   LAWS   OF   MAINE. 


Supt.  of 
schools  sec- 
retary of 
committee. 
1895,  c.  120. 
1897,  c.  332. 
1903,  c.  184. 
1905,  c.  48, 
§6. 
1913,  c.  112. 


Shall  appoint 
times  and 
places  for 
examina- 
tions. 


Qualifica- 
tions of 
teachers. 


Certificates 
to  be  given. 


SEC.  36.  The  superintendent  of  schools  in  every  town  shall 
be,  ex-officio,  secretary  of  the  superintending  school  committee. 
He  shall  keep  a  permanent  record  of  all  its  votes,  orders  and 
proceedings,  he  shall  place  all  orders  for  materials  and  sup- 
plies purchased  by  vote  of  the  committee  and  shall  be  its  agent 
in  keeping  all  financial  records  and  accounts.  He  shall  issue 
vouchers  showing  the  correctness  of  bills  contracted  on  ac- 
count of  school  appropriations,  but  such  bills  shall  not  be  al- 
lowed for  payment  by  the  municipal  officers  of  towns  unless 
they  shall  have  been  approved  by  a  majority  of  the  members  of 
the  superintending  school  committee.  He  shall  perform  such 
duties  not  herein  enumerated  as  said  committee  shall  direct. 

*/.  He  shall  appoint  suitable  times  and  places  for  the  exam- 
ination of  candidates  proposing  to  teach  in  town,  and  shall  give 
notice  thereof  by  posting  the  same  in  two  or  more  public  places 
within  the  town  at  least  three  weeks  before  the  time  of  said 
examination,  or  by  the  publication  of  said  notice  for  a  like  time 
in  one  or  more  newspapers  having  the  largest  circulation  in  the 
county.  Five  days  constitute  the  school  week,  and  four  weeks 
a  school  month. 

*//.  On  satisfactory  evidence  that  a  candidate  possesses  a 
good  moral  cliaracter  and  a  temper  and  disposition  suitable  for 
an  instructor  of  youth',  he  shall  examine  him  in  reading,  spelling, 
English  grammar,  geography,  history,  arithmetic,  civil  govern- 
ment, bookkeeping,  and  physiology  with  special  reference  to  the 
effects  of  alcoholic  drinks,  stimulants  and  narcotics  upon  the 
human  system;  and  the  elements  of  the  natural  sciences,  espe- 
cially as  applied  to  agriculture,  and  such  other  branches  as  the 
superintending  school  committee  desire  to  introduce  into  public 
schools,  and  particularly  into  the  school  for  which  he  is  exam- 
ined; also  as  to  his  capacity  for  the  government  thereof. 

*///.  He  shall  give  to  each  candidate  found  competent,  a  cer- 
tificate that  he  is  qualified  to  govern  said  school  and  instruct  in 
the  branches  above  named,  and  such  other  branches  as  may  be 
necessary  to  be  taught  therein,  or  he  may  render  valid  by  in- 
dorsement any  graded  certificates  issued  to  teachers  by  normal 
school  principals.  No  certificate  shall  be  granted  any  person  to 
teach  in  the  public  schools  of  the  state,  who  has  not  passed  a 

*Non-effective  after  Sept.  1,  1914  by  provisions  of  An  Act  to  pro- 
vide for  the  State  certification  of  all  teachers  of  public  schools, 
Chapter  58,  P.  L.,  1913. 


SCHOOL   LAWS   OF   MAINE.  15 

satisfactory  examination  in  physiology  and  hygiene,  with  special 
reference  to  the  effects  of  alcoholic  drinks,  stimulants  and  nar- 
cotics upon  the  human  system. 

IV.  He  shall  employ  teachers,  subject  to  the  approval  of  the  teaacher?P  ° 
superintending  school  committee. 

V.  He  shall  return  under  oath  to  the  school  committee,  in  School 

census. 

April  annually,  a  certified  list  of  the  names  and  ages  of  all  per-  isp,  c.  216, 
sons  in  his  town  from  five  to  twenty-one  years,  corrected  to  the^j-.  c-  n. 
first  day  of  said  month,  leaving  out  of  said  enumeration  all  per- 
sons coming  from  other  places  to  attend  any  college  or  academy, 
or  to  labor  in  any  factory,  or  at  any  manufacturing  or  other 
business. 

SKC.  37.     He  shall  annually  make  returns  to  the  state  super-  Return  to 
intendent  of  public  schools,  of  the  number  of  persons  between  Ltendenteof 
the  ages  of  five  and  twenty-one  vears,  together  with  a  certified  1897,  c!  289. 

*  1911,  c.  121. 

list  of  the  names  and  ages  of  such  persons,  corrected  to  the  first 
day  of  April  preceding  the  time  of  making  said  returns,  and 
give  full  and  complete  answers  to  the  inquiries  contained  in  the 
blank  forms  furnished  him  by  law ;  certify  that  such  statement 
is  true  and  correct,  according  to  his  best  knowledge  and  belief; 
and  transmit  it  to  the  office  of  the  state  superintendent  on  or 
before  the  first  day  of  each  May.  He  shall  also  furnish  such 
other  information  relating  to  the  public  schools  as  the  said 
superintendent  shall  at  any  time  require  of  him.  When  the 
state  superintendent  of  schools  on  examination  of  the  census 
returns  of  any  town  is  of  the  opinion  that  the  census  has  been 
inaccurately  taken  he  shall  make  statement  thereof  to  the  gov- 
ernor and  council  who  may  require  the  census  of  such  town  to 
be  retaken  and  returned  and,  if  they  think  necessary,  they  may  __census  may 
for  this  purpose  appoint  persons  to  perform  this  service  andtoblqmi 
such  persons  so  appointed  shall  take  the  same  oath,  perform  the re 
same  service  and  receive  the  same  compensation  out  of  the 
same  fund  as  the  person  or  persons  who  took  the  school  census 
in  the  first  instance;  and  the  school  fund  distributable  in  pro- 
portion to  the  enumeration  of  scholars  shall  be  distributed  on 
the  corrected  returns. 


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SCHOOL  LAWS   OF   MAINE. 


Annual 
returns  of 
supt.  of 
schools. 
R.  S.,  c.  11, 
§88. 

1895,  c.  120. 
1905,  c  48, 
§  7. 
1913,  c.  4. 


Shall 

examine 

schools. 

1893,  c.  216, 

§8. 

1895,  c.  120. 


— annual 

report. 

R.S.,  c.  11, 

§87. 

1893,  c.  216, 

§8. 


SEC.  38.  He  shall,  on  or  before  the  first  day  of  August 
nineteen  hundred  and  fourteen  and  annually  thereafter,  make 
under  oath  a  full  and  complete  return  of  all  educational  statis- 
tics for  the  year  ending  July  first  next  preceding,  and  any  town 
that  shall  fail,  through  its  school  officers,  to  make  the  return 
required  by  this  section  shall  be  liable  to  the  provisions  of 
section  sixteen  of  chapter  fifteen  of  the  Revised  Statutes. 

SEC.  39.  He  shall  examine  the  schools  and  inquire  into  the 
regulations  and  discipline  thereof,  and  the  proficiency  of  the 
scholars,  for  which  purpose  he  shall  visit  each  school  at  least 
twice  each  term.  At  the  annual  town  meeting,  he  shall  make  a 
written  report  of  the  condition  of  the  schools  for  the  past  year, 
the  proficiency  made  by  the  pupils,  and  the  success  attending  the 
modes  of  instruction  and  government  thereof,  and  transmit  a 
copy  to  the  state  superintendent  of  public  schools. 


Two  or 
more  towns 
may  unite 
in  the  em- 
ployment of 
a  superin- 
tendent. 
1897,  c.  296, 

1907,  c.  55. 
1909,  c.  122. 


— proviso, 
number  of 
schools. 
1911,  c.  92. 


SUPERINTENDENCE  0?  SCHOOLS  THROUGH  THE  UNION   OF  TOWNS. 

SEC.  40.  The  school  committees  of  two  or  more  towns,  hav- 
ing under  their  care  and  custody  an  aggregate  of  not  less  than 
twenty,  nor  more  than  fifty  schools,  may  unite  in  the  employ- 
ment of  a  superintendent  of  schools,  provided  they  have  been  so 
authorized  by  a  vote  of  their  towns  at  the  regular  town  meet- 
ings, or  special  town  meetings  called  for  that  purpose.  Pro- 
vided further  that  such  union  shall  not  take  effect  until  the 
state  superintendent  of  public  schools  shall  have  approved  the 
certificate  of  union  as  hereinafter  provided.  But  the  committee 
of  any  town  dissatisfied  with  the  decision  of  the  state  superin- 
tendent may  appeal  to  the  governor  and  council  who  shall  make 
the  final  decision  relative  thereto.  Provided  further  in  any  case 
where  it  shall  appear  to  the  state  superintendent  of  public 
schools,  upon  the  representation  of  the  school  committees  of 
certain  towns  that,  owing  to  geographical  situation  or  other 
reasons  it  is  to  the  advantage  of  the  state  and  of  the  said  towns 
that  a  union  shall  include  fewer  than  twenty  or  more  than  fifty 
schools  said  state  superintendent  of  public  schools  shall  have 
authority  to  approve  the  certificate  of  such  union,  and  a  union 
so  formed  shall,  except  for  the  number  of  schools,  be  governed 
by  the  conditions  herein  prescribed  for  unions  of  towns.  A 


SCHOOL  LAWS   OF   MAINS.  I/ 

union  of  towns  formed  under  the  provisions  of  this  section 
shall  upon  its  first  organization  continue  for  a  period  of  at  least 
three  years  unless  sooner  dissolved  by  a  two-thirds  vote  of  the 
joint  committee,  but  after  the  expiration  of  said  three-year 
period  any  of  the  towns  forming  said  union  may  at  its  annual 
meeting  withdraw  from  said  union  and  the  remaining  members 
may  continue  a  union  in  accordance  with  the  conditions  herein  —continuance 

oi  a  union. 

prescribed  as  to  the  number  of  schools  and  upon  the  approval  isis,  c.  145. 
of   a  new  certificate  of  union  by  the   state  superintendent  of 
public  schools.     The  joint   committee  of  any  union  of  towns  ;^mnsgsion 
may  admit  to  said  union  any  town  or  towns  which  have  voted  to  committee. 
join  the  said  union;  but  such  admission  shall  be  subject  to  the 
conditions  herein  prescribed  as  to  the  number  of  schools  and 
upon  the  approval  of  a  new  certificate  of  union  by  the  state  su- 
perintendent of  public  schools. 

SEC.  41.     The  school  committees  of  the  towns  comprising  a  School  com- 


union  shall  form  a  joint  committee,  and  for  the  purposes  of  this  ^ch 

section  and  the   four   following  sections,  said   joint  committee    j 

shall  be  held  to  be  the  agents  of  each  town  comprising  the  union. 

Said  joint  committee  shall  meet  annually  at  a  day  and  place 

agreed  upon  by  the  chairman  of  the  committees  of  the  several  §8|7'  c>  296 

towns  comprising  the  union,  and  shall  organize  by  the  choice  of 

a  chairman  and  a  secretary.     They  shall  determine  the  relative  —duties. 

4.        t  £  J    1_  1  J  •  1     1907'  n"   101' 

amount  of  service  to  be  performed  by  the  superintendent  in  each  §  i. 

1909   c   12^ 

town,  including  the  minimum  number  of  visits  to  be  made  each  1913!  c!  iss! 
term  to  each  school,  fix  his  salary,  apportion  the  amounts 
thereof  to  be  paid  by  the  several  towns,  which  amount  shall  be 
certified  to  the  treasurers  of  said  towns  respectively  and  to  the 
state  superintendent  of  schools,  together  with  the  amounts  appor- 
tioned to  each  town;  provided  that  the  amounts  so  certified 
shall  be  in  proportion  to  the  amount  of  service  performed  in 
the  several  towns.  They  shall  choose  by  ballot  a  superintend- 
ent of  schools  for  a  term  not  exceeding  five  years,  but  the  period 
of  such  election  shall  not  exceed  that  for  which  the  union  of 
towns  has  been  authorized.  Towns  may 

SEC.  42.     I.     The  chairman  and  secretary  of  said  joint  com-  ?pmpensfa°-r 
mittee  shall,  upon  the  election  of  a  superintendent  of  schools  as  mtSndfentper" 
provided   by   section   forty-one   of  this   chapter,   certify   under  f-?.'1  c'  296' 
oath   to  the   state   superintendent  of    schools   upon   the    forms 


i8 


SCHOOL   LAWS    OF    MAINE. 


— state  aid. 
1907,  c.  101, 
§2. 
1909,  c.  146. 


— appropri- 
ation out  of 
state  school 
funds. 
1911,  c.  191. 


Aid  to  super- 
intendents 
having  over 
fifty  schools 
under  their 
care  or 
custody. 
1909,  c.  120. 


Appropria- 
tion by  each 
town  for  sal- 
ary of  super- 
intendent. 
1897,  c.  296, 
§4. 

1907,  c.  101, 
§3. 

1913,  c.  138. 
1913,  c.  145. 


Conference 
of  superin- 
tendents. 
1913,  c.  138. 


prescribed  by  him  all  facts  relative  to  said  union  and  employ- 
ment of  a  superintendent.  Annually  upon  the  first  day  of  April 
and  whenever  a  new  superintendent  is  chosen  said  chairman  and 
secretary  shall  make  return  of  a  similar  certificate.  Upon 
approval  of  said  certificate  the  superintendent  so  employed  shall 
on  presentation  of  proper  vouchers  receive  monthly  out  of  the 
sum  appropriated  for  superintendence  of  towns  comprising 
school  unions  and  out  of  any  moneys  in  the  treasury  not  other- 
wise appropriated  a  sum  equal  to  twice  the  aggregate  sum  paid 
by  the  towns  comprising  the  union,  provided  that  the  amount 
so  paid  for  the  benefit  of  a  single  union  of  towns  shall  not 
exceed  eight  hundred  dollars  in  one  year,  and  provided  further 
that  the  annual  appropriation  for  payments  under  this  act  shall 
be  deducted  from  state  school  funds. 

II.  Whenever  the  chairman  and  secretary  of  school  com- 
mittees of  towns  and  cities  having  under  their  care  and  custody 
an  aggregate  of  more  than  fifty  schools,  shall  certify  under 
oath  to  the  state  superintendent  of  schools,  the  form  of  certifi- 
cate to  be  determined  by  said  state  superintendent,  that  a  super- 
intendent of  schools  has  been  employed  by  them  for  one  year, 
and  the  salary  that  he  has  received,  then  upon  the  approval  of 
said  certificate  by  the  state  superintendent  of  schools  and  pre- 
sentation to  the  governor  and  council,  a  warrant  shall  be  drawn 
upon  the  treasurer  of  the  state  for  the  payment  to  the  treasurer 
of  that  town  or  city,  of  a  sum  equal  to  three-fifths  the  amount 
expended  by  said  town  or  city  for  said  superintendence,  pro- 
vided that  the  amount  so  paid  for  the  benefit  of  a  single  town 
or  city  shall  not  exceed  eight  hundred  dollars  in  one  year. 

SEC.  43.  I.  The  towns  uniting  for  the  purpose  of  employ- 
ing a  superintendent  of  schools  shall  appropriate  for  his  salary 
their  proportion  of  the  sum  paid  said  superintendent ;  and  the 
amount  to  be  paid  by  each  town  shall  be  determined  by  dividing 
the  entire  sum  expended  for  superintendence  among  the  towns 
comprising  the  union  in  the  proportion  of  the  service  performed 
in  each  town. 

II.  The  state  superintendent  of  schools  shall  annually  hold 
a  conference  for  the  instruction  of  superintendents  serving 
under  the  provisions  of  sections  forty  to  forty-two  inclusive 


SCHOOL   LAWS   OF    MAINE. 

of  this  chapter  and  he  shall  be  authorized  to  expend  not  to 
exceed  five  hundred  dollars  out  of  the  appropriation  for  the 
superintendence  of  towns  comprising  school  unions  to  assist 
in  defraying  the  mileage  expenses  of  those  superintendents 
who  live  remote  from  the  place  of  such  conference,  but  no  su- 
perintendent shall  be  entitled  to  any  part  of  such  expenses 
unless  he  shall  regularly  attend  all  of  its  sessions. 

SEC.  44.     Persons  employed  to  serve  as  superintendents  of  Qualifica- 
tions of 

schools   under    section    f ortv-one    and    section    fortv-two   shall  super- 
intendents. 

hold  state  certificates  of  superintendence  grade  which  shall  be  J897' c-  296- 
issued   upon   such   examination   as   may   be   prescribed   by   the  i9^9' c- 120> 
state  superintendent  of  public   schools   and   they  shall  devote  |939'  c' 122> 
their  entire  time  to  superintendence,  in  the  towns  comprising 191o>  °' 138' 
the  union,  provided,  however,  that  they  may,  without  violation 
of  the  provisions  of  this  section,  perform  such  educational  ser- 
vice outside  of  the  towns  of  their  unions  as  may  be  performed 
with  the  approval  of  the  state  superintendent  of  schools  and 
with    the    consent    of   the    committees    employing   them.      The 
powers  and  duties  of  said  superintendents  shall  be  the  same  as 
those  prescribed  for  town  superintendents  in  this  chapter. 

SEC.  45.  No  town  shall  receive  state  aid  under  section  forty-  state  aid 
two  unless  its  appropriation  and  expenditure  for  superintend-  wSheld. 
ence  have  been  exclusive  of  the  amount  required  by  law  for  §  7.  ' 

1905,  c.  48, 

common  school  purposes.     If  any  part  of  the  money  raised  by  §g8g  c  122 
the  town  or  union  of  towns,  or  paid  to  them  by  the  state  for  §  4-  ' 
superintendence,  is  expended  for  any  other  purposes  than  those 
provided  for  in  said  section,  then  each  person  so  misappropri- 
ating said  money  shall  forfeit  double  the  sum  so  misapplied,  to 
be  recovered  in  an  action  of  debt,  in  the  name  and  to  the  use  of 
the  town,  by  any  inhabitant  thereof;  and  no  town  or  union  of 
towns   shall   receive    further   aid   under   said   section   until   the 
amount  so  misapplied  has  been  raised  and  expended  for  super- 
intendence by  such  town  or  union  of  towns. 

COMPULSORY  EDUCATION. 

Towns  may 

SEC.  46.     Towns  may  make  such  by-laws,  not  repugnant  to  iawsecon- 
law,  concerning  habitual  truants,  and  children  between  six  and  tTu^tl 
seventeen  years  of  age  not  attending  school,  without  any  regular  §  21."  ° 


20 


SCHOOL   LAWS   OF   MAINS. 


ipproval. 


Violation  of 
by-laws. 
R,  S.,  c.  11, 
§22. 


Truant 
children 
may  be 
placed  in 
suitable 
institutions. 
R.  S.,  c.  11, 
§23. 


Children  be- 
tween certain 
ages  must 
attend  school 
unless  ex- 
cused by 
committee. 
1899,  c.  80, 
§  1. 

1901,  c.  185, 
§  1. 

1903,  c.  140. 
1905,  c.  48, 
§9. 
1909,  c.  57. 


— committee 
may  exclude 
certain  chil- 
dren. 


and  lawful  occupation,  and  growing  up  in  ignorance,  as  are  most 
conducive  to  their  welfare  and  the  good  order  of  society;  and 
may  annex  a  suitable  penalty,  not  exceeding  twenty  dollars,  for 
any  breach  thereof ;  but  such  by-laws  must  be  first  approved  by 
a  judge  of  the  supreme  judicial  court. 

.  SEC.  47.  Truant  officers  elected  as  provided  in  section  fifty- 
one  shall  alone  make  complaints  for  violations  of  said  by-laws, 
and  shall  execute  the  judgments  of  the  magistrate. 

SEC.  48.  Said  magistrate,  in  place  of  fine,  may  order  chil- 
dren proved  to  be  growing  up  in  truancy,  and  without  the 
benefit  of  the  education  provided  for  them  by  law,  to  be  placed 
for  such  periods  as  he  thinks  expedient,  in  the  institution  of  in- 
struction, house  of  reformation,  or  other  suitable  situation 
provided  for  the  purpose  under  section  forty-six. 

SEC.  49.  Every  child  between  the  seventh  and  fifteenth  an- 
versaries  of  his  birth  and  every  child  between  the  fifteenth  and 
seventeenth  anniversaries  who  cannot  read  at  sight  and  write 
legible  simple  sentences  in  the  English  language  shall  attend 
some  public  day  school  during  the  time  such  school  is  in  session, 
and  an  absence  therefrom  of  one-half  day  or  more  shall  be 
deemed  a  violation  of  this  requirement ;  provided  that  necessary 
absence  may  be  excused  by  the  superintending  school  committee 
or  superintendent  of  schools  or  teachers  acting  by  direction  of 
either ;  provided  also,  that  such  attendance  shall  not  be  required 
if  the  child  obtained  equivalent  instruction,  for  a  like  period  of 
time,  in  an  approved  private  school  or  in  any  other  manner 
approved  by  the  superintending  school  committee ;  provided, 
further,  that  children  shall  not  be  credited  with  attendance  at  a 
private  school  until  a  certificate  showing  their  names,  residence 
and  attendance  at  such  school  signed  by  the  person  or  persons 
having  such  school  in  charge,  shall  be  filed  with  the  school 
officials  of  the  town  in  which  said  children  reside ;  and  provided, 
further,  that  the  superintending  school  committee  may  exclude 
from  the  public  schools  any  child  whose  physical  or  mental  con- 
dition makes  it  inexpedient  for  him  to  attend.  All  persons 
having  children  under  their  control  shall  cause  them  to  attend 
school  as  provided  in  this  section,  and  for  every  neglect  of  such 
duty  shall  be  punished  by  a  fine  not  exceeding  twenty-five  dol- 
lars or  shall  be  imprisoned  not  exceeding  thirty  days. 


SCHOOL  LAWS  OF  MAINE.  21 


SEC.  50.     Children  living  remote  from  any  public  school  in 
the  town  in  which  they  reside  may  be  allowed  to  attend  the  pub- 
lie  schools,  other  than  a  high  school  approved  as  provided  in  t^j 
section  sixty-  three,  in  an  adjoining  town,  under  such  regulations  S9  agre< 
and  on  such  terms  as  the  school  committees  of  said  towns  agree  §  I.9'  c' 
upon  and  prescribe,  and  the  school  committee  of  the  town  in 
which  such  children  reside  shall  pay  the  sum  agreed  upon,  out 
of  the  appropriations  of  money  raised  in  said  town  for  school 
purposes.     Except  as  above  provided,  a  child  attending  a  public 
school,  other  than  a  high  school  approved  as  provided  in  section  —tuition. 
sixty-three,  in  a  town  in  which  his  parent  or  legal  guardian  does 
not  reside,  after  having  obtained  the  consent  of  the  school  com- 
mittee of  such  town,  shall  pay,  as  tuition,  a  sum  equal  to  the 
average  expense  of  each  scholar  in  such  school. 

SEC.  51.     The    superintending    school    committee    of    every  inTsSI 

committees 

city  and  town  shall  annually  elect  one  or  more  persons,  to  be  shall  elect 

•      .  /v  .,,...  ..  truant  officers. 

designated  truant  officers,  who  shall   inquire  into  all  cases  of  1899,  c.  so, 

neglect  of  the  duties  prescribed  in  section  forty-nine  and  ascer-  i9os,  c.  48, 

tain  the  reasons  therefor  and  shall  promptly  report  the  same  to  }W  £•  238. 

said  superintending  school  committee,  and  such  truant  officers  1913>  c-  79- 

or  any  of  them  shall,  when  so  directed  by  the  school  committee 

or  superintendent  in  writing,  prosecute  in  the  name  of  the  state 

any  person  neglecting  to  perform  the  duties  prescribed  in  said—  duties. 

section,  by  promptly  entering  a  complaint  before  a  magistrate  ; 

and  said  officer  shall,  when  notified  by  any  teacher  that  any 

pupil  is  irregular  in  attendance,  arrest  and  take  such  pupil  to 

school  when  found  truant;  and  further  such  officers  shall  en- 

force the  provisions  of  sections  one  hundred  eighteen  to  one 

hundred   twenty,    inclusive,   of   this   chapter.     Truant   officers, 

when  so  directed  in  writing  by  the  superintendent  of  schools  or 

the  superintending  school  committee  of  their  respective  towns  lishmeats- 

may  visit  the  manufacturing,  mechanical,  mercantile  and  other 

business  establishments  in  their  several  cities  and  towns  during 

the  hours  in  which  the  public  schools  of  such  city  or  town  are 

in  session,  and  ascertain  whetber  any  minors  under  the  age  of 

fifteen  years  are  employed  therein,  and  shall  report  in  writing 

any  cases  of  such  employment  to  the  superintendent  of  schools 

or  the  superintending  school  committee  of  their  city  or  town 

and  if  employed  therein  contrary  to  the  provisions  of  chapter 


22 


SCHOOL   LAWS   OP   MAINE. 


— compen- 
sation. 

— neglect  of 
duty . 


Habitual 
truant  shall 
be  admon- 
ished and 
punished . 
1899,  c.  80, 
§4. 

1901,  c.  185, 
§2. 
1913,  c.  1. 


Penalty  for 

abetting 

truancy. 

1899,  c.  80, 

§  5. 

1905,  c.  48, 

§11. 


forty,  shall  also  report  in  writing  such  illegal  employment  to  the 
commissioner  of  labor.  The  owner,  superintendent,  overseer  or 
agent  of  all  manufacturing,  mechanical,  mercantile  or  other  bus- 
iness establishments,  upon  request  shall  produce  for  the  inspec- 
tion of  such  truant  officers  all  certified  copies  of  records  of 
birth  and  baptism,  passports  and  age  and  schooling  certificates 
required  to  be  kept  on  file  in  such  establishments  under  chapter 
forty  of  the  revised  statutes.  Superintending  school  committees 
shall  elect  truant  officers  at  their  first  .meeting  after  the  annual 
meeting  of  the  town;  they  shall  fill  any  vacancies  occurring 
during  the  year  and  they  shall  have  authority  to  fix  the  com- 
pensation of  said  officers  and  said  compensation  shall  be  paid 
from  the  appropriation  made  for  the  salaries  of  municipal  offi- 
cers. Any  truant  officer  neglecting  any  duty  required  of  him 
under  the  provisions  of  this  chapter  shall  be  liable  to  a  fine  of 
not  less  than  ten  nor  more  than  fifty  dollars  and  any  town  fail- 
ing through  its  superintending  school  committee  to  meet  said 
provisions  shall  be  liable  to  the  provisions  of  section  sixteen 
of  this  chapter. 

SEC.  52.  If  a  child  without  sufficient  excuse,  shall  be  habit- 
ually and  wilfully  absent  from  school  or  shall  fail  without 
such  excuse  to  attend  school  for  five  day  sessions  or  for  ten 
half-day  sessions  within  any  period  of  six  months,  he  shall  be 
deemed  an  habitual  truant,  and  the  superintending  school  com- 
mittee shall  notify  him  and  any  person  under  whose  control 
he  may  be  that  unless  he  conforms  to  section  forty-nine,  the 
provisions  of  the  two  following  sections  will  be  enforced  against 
them;  and  if  thereafter  such  child  continues  irregular  in  attend- 
ance, the  truant  officers  or  any  of  them  shall,  when  so  directed 
by  the  school  committee  or  superintendent  in  writing,  enforce 
said  provisions  by  complaint. 

SEC.  53.  Any  person  having  control  of  a  child,  who  is  an 
habitual  truant,  as  defined  in  the  foregoing  section,  and  being 
in  any  way  responsible  for  such  truancy,  and  any  person  who 
induces  a  child  to  absent  himself  from  school,  or  harbors  or 
conceals  such  child  when  he  is  absent,  shall  be  punished  by  a 
fine  not  exceeding  twenty  dollars  or  shall  be  imprisoned  not 
exceeding  thirty  days. 


SCHOOL   LAWS   OF   MAINE.  23 

SEC.  54.     On  complaint  of  the  truant  officer  an  habitual  tru-  Habitual 
ant,  if  a  boy,  may  be  committed  to  the  State  School  for  Boys, 
or  if  a  girl/  to  the  State  Industrial  School  for  Girls,  or  to  any 
truant    school    that   may    hereafter   be   established.      Police   or 
municipal  courts  and  trial  justices  shall  have  jurisdiction  of  such  1905,'  c/4S, 
complaint  and  of  the  offenses  described  in  sections  forty-nine, 
fifty-one  and  fifty-  three.    All  warrants  issued  by  said  courts  or  Truant 

orncers  may 

trial  justices  upon  such  complaint,  or  for  an  offense  committed  ^^ 
under  said  sections  and  all  legal  processes  issued  by  said  courts 
or  trial  justices  for  the  purpose  of  carrying  into  effect  the  pro- 
visions of  this  section  and  of  said  sections  numbered  forty-nine, 
fifty-one  and  fifty-three,  may  be  directed  to  and  executed  by  the 
truant  officer,  or  either  of  the  truant  officers,  of  the  town  where 
the  offense  is  committed.  All  fines,  collected  under  said  two 
last  named  sections,  shall  be  paid  to  the  treasurer  of  the  city  or 
town  in  which  the  offense  is  committed,  for  the  support  of  the 
public  schools  therein. 

^INSTRUCTION  IN  SECONDARY  SCHOOLS. 

SEC.  55.  Xo  town  shall  receive  state  aid  for  the  maintenance  f^high  ^ 
of  a  free  high  school  unless  its  appropriation  and  expenditure  R^*'.  n. 
for  such  school  has  been  exclusive  of  the  amounts  required  by  1901',  c.  197, 
law  for  common  school  purposes.  ion,  c.  109. 

SEC.   s6.     Any  town  may  establish  and  maintain  not  exceed-  ^ 

3  J  Free  high 

ing  two  free  high  schools;  and  in  such  case  shall  receive  the  schools, 

town  may 

same  state  aid  as  if  the  expenditures  of  both  schols  had  been  ^t|bli«h  po- 
made  for  one.     Two  or  more  adjoining  towns  may  unite   in 
establishing  and  maintaining  a  free  high  school,  and  both  shall 
receive  the  same  state  aid  as  if  such  school  had  been  maintained  sc 
by  one  town.    Any  town  may,  in  addition  to  the  sums  raised  f  or  o~f  ' 


r  ,  .    ,  .  .    A          tending  second- 

the  support  of  high  and  common  schools,  raise  and  appropriate  a  arv  schools. 

,    1909,  c.  148. 

sum  for  the  payment  of  conveyance  of  pupils  attending  second- 
ary schools,  said  sum  to  be  expended  under  the  direction  of  the 
superintending  school  committee.  Towns  shall  receive  in  trust 
and  faithfully  expend  gifts  and  bequests  made  to  aid  in  the 


*  See  also  An  Act  for  the  improvement  of  Free  High  Schools,  Chap- 
ter 71,   P.  L.,   1909.   and  An  Act  additional  to  Chapter  71,   P.  L.,   1909, 
Chapter  196,  P.  L.,  1909. 


SCHOOL  LAWS  OF   MAINE. 


— funds 
received . 


— penalty  for 
misapplying 
money  ap- 
propriated 
by  state. 


Inhabitants 
of  any  sec- 
tion of  a 
town  may 
maintain 
free  high 
school. 
1893,  c.  216, 
§7. 


—officers, 
how  chosen, 
powers  and 
duties. 


maintenance  of  free  high  schools,  and  shall  receive  aid  in  such 
cases  to  the  same  extent  and  on  the  same  conditions  as  if  such 
schools  had  been  established  and  maintained  by  taxation;  and 
any  town  shall  receive  such  state  aid  on  any  expenditure  for  a 
free  high  school  or  schools,  made  from  the  funds  or  proceeds 
of  the  real  estate  of  an  academy  or  incorporated  institution  of 
learning,  surrendered  or  transferred  to  such  town  for  educa- 
tional purpose;  but  if  any  part  of  the  money  so  paid  by  the 
state,  is  expended  for  any  other  purpose  than  the  support  of 
such  free  high  schools,  as  provided  by  this  section,  then  each 
person  so  misapplying  said  money  forfeits  double  the  sum  so 
misapplied,  to  be  recovered  in  an  action  of  debt,  in  the  name 
and  to  the  use  of  the  town,  by  any  inhabitant  thereof;  and  no 
town  shall  receive  further  support  from  the  state  for  any  free 
high  school,  until  the  amount  so  received,  but  misapplied,  has 
been  raised  and  expended  for  such  free  high  schools  by  such 
town. 

SEC.  57.  The  inhabitants  of  any  section  of  a  town  which 
fails  or  neglects  to  provide  for  the  maintenance  of  free  high 
schools,  may  organize  a  free  high  school  precinct  in  the  man- 
ner hereinafter  provided,  and  may  establish  and  maintain  a  fnee 
high  school  therein,  and  receive  state  aid  the  same  as  the  town 
might  have  done;  provided,  that  no  more  than  two  such  free 
high  schools  shall  be  established  in  any  town,  and  -that  the 
amount  of  aid  extended  to  the  precincts  in  any  town  shall  not 
exceed  the  sum  that  the  town  might  have  received.  On  petition 
of  any  five  voters  resident  in  said  section,  reciting  the  limits  of 
the  precinct  proposed,  the  municipal  officers  of  the  town  shall 
call  a  meeting  of  the  voters  within  said  limits  by  causing  notices, 
specifying  the  time,  place  and  purposes  of  said  meeting,  to  be 
posted  in  two  or  more  conspicuous  places  within  said  limits 
seven  days  before  the  time  appointed.  Said  meeting  shall  choose 
a  moderator  and  a  clerk  who  shall  be  sworn,  and  shall,  by  a 
majority  vote  of  those  present  and  voting,  determine  whether 
said  precinct  shall  be  organized.  It  shall  choose  an  agent  who 
shall  be  duly  sworn.  Such  precinct  may  continue  its  organiza- 
tion from  year  to  year  by  the  holding  of  meetings  called  in 
the  manner  aforesaid,  so  long  as  the  town  shall  neglect  or  refuse 


SCHOOL    LAWS  OF   MAINE.  25 

to  support  free  high  schools.     Sections  of  adjoining  towns  may  Actions  of 
organize  as  herein  provided,  and  unite  in  the  support  of  such  j££^izmay 
schools.    But  no  more  than  two  such  precincts  shall  exist  at  the  Precmcts- 
same  time  in  any  town. 

SEC.  58.     Any  town,  precinct  or  union  of  towns  or  precincts,  Location. 
voting  to  establish  a  free  high  school  as  herein  provided,  may  §  30."  c 
locate  the  same  permanently,  or  vote  that  the  terms  thereof  be 
held  alternately  in  such  places  within  the  town  or  towns,  pre- 
cinct or  precincts,  as  may  be  selected,  and  as  may  accept  said 
school.    The  town  or  precinct,  in  which  said  school  is  thus  held,  _gchool. 
shall  supply  appropriate  equipments,  and  furnish  and  warm  a 
suitable  building  for  the  same;  provided  that  any  schoolhouse 
vvithin  such  town  or  precinct  may  be  used  for  such  free  high 
school,  when  not  required  for  ordinary  school  purposes. 

SEC.  59.     The  course  of  study  in  the  free  high  schools,  shall  Course  of 
embrace  the  ordinary  English  academic  studies  which  are  taught 


.  .  embrace. 

in  secondary  schools,  especially  the  natural  sciences  in  their  R.  s.,  c.  11, 
application  to  mechanics,  manufactures  and  agriculture;  but  the  i897«  c-  299- 
ancient  or  modern  languages  and  music  shall  not  be  taught 
therein  except  by  direction  of  the  superintending  school  com- 
mittees having  supervision  thereof.  Such  schools,  when  estab- 
lished  by  any  town  or  union  of  towns,  shall  be  free  to  all  the 
youth  in  such  town  or  towns  who  have  such  scholastic  attain- 
ments as  will  fit  them  to  attend  such  schools  with  profit,  and 
the  superintendent,  or  superintending  school  committee,  having 
supervision  thereof  shall  make  such  examination  of  candidates 
for  admission  to  said  schools  as  they  consider  necessary. 

When  such  school  is  established  by  any  precinct  or  union 
precincts,  it  shall  be  free  in  the  same  manner  to  the  scholars  preciacts 
within   such  precincts,   and  open  also  to   scholars   passing  the 
required  examination   from  without  sucii  precincts,  but  within 
the  towns  in  which  said  precincts  are  situated,  on  payment  to 
the  agent  of  the  precinct  in  which  such  school  is  located,  of  such 
tuition,  to  be  fixed  by  the  superintending  school  committee  or 
committees  having  supervision  of  the  same,  as  is  equivalent  to 
the  cost  a  scholar  of  maintaining  such  school,  after  deducting 
the  aid  extended  by  the  state.     Whenever  in  the  judgment  of 


,«  ,.  .  may  admit 

the  superintending  school  committees  having  the  supervision  of  pupils  fr 
any  free  high  school  or  schools,  the  number  of  pupils  in  thetown- 


26 


SCHOOL   LAWS  OF   MAINE. 


Free  high 
schools 
subject  to 
school  laws. 


— how  man- 
aged, estab- 
lished by 
towns. 


— es  cablished 
by  a  union 
of  towns. 


— established 
by  a  precinct. 


— established 
by  precincts 
in  different 
towns. 


Towns  may 
raise  money 
to  maintain 
free  high 
schools. 
R.  S.,  c.  11, 
§33. 

Provisions 
for  pupils 
in  towns 
having  no 
free  high 
schools. 
R.  S.,  c.  11, 
§  34. 

1899,  c.  6. 
1905,  c.  48, 
§  13. 
1911,  c.  88. 


same  may  be  increased  without  detriment,  scholars  from  with- 
out the  towns  directly  interested  in  such  school  or  schools,  may 
be  admitted  to  the  same  on  passing  the  required  examination 
and  paying  such  tuition  as  may  be  fixed  by  such  committee,  to 
the  treasurer  of  the  town  in  which  the  school  is  kept,  when  the 
school  is  maintained  by  a  town  or  union  of  towns,  or  to  the 
agent  of  the  precinct  in  which  the  school  is  kept,  when  such 
school  is  maintained  by  a  precinct  or  union  of  precincts. 

SEC.  60.  Free  high  schools,  established  and  maintained  un- 
der the  foregoing  provisions,  are  subject  to  the  laws  relating  to 
common  schools,  so  far  as  applicable,  except  as  otherwise  pro- 
vided. When  established  and  maintained  by  a  town,  they  shall 
be  under  the  supervision  and  entire  management  of  the  super- 
intending school  committee  of  such  town.  When  established 
and  maintained  by  a  union  of  towns,  such  school  shall  be  under 
the  supervision  and  entire  management  of  the  school  commit- 
tees of  such  towns,  who  constitute  a  joint  board  for  that  pur- 
pose. When  established  and  maintained  by  any  precinct,  such 
school  shall  be  under  the  supervision  of  the  superintending 
committee  of  such  town,  or  of  the  state  superintendent,  when 
the  precinct  so  elects,  and  under  the  financial  management  of 
the  agent  of  the  precinct,  who,  in  connection  with  said  commit- 
tee or  superintendent,  shall  employ  teachers  for  the  same. 
When  established  and  maintained  by  precincts  composed  of  sec- 
tions of  adjoining  towns,  such  school  shall  be  under  the  super- 
vision of  the  superintending  school  committee  of  such  towns, 
who  constitute  a  joint  board  for  that  purpose,  and  under  the 
financial  management  of  the  agents  of  both  precincts,  who,  in 
connection  with  said  committees,  shall  employ  the  teachers. 

SEC.  61.  Towns  and  precincts  may  raise  money  for  estab- 
lishing and  maintaining  free  high  schools,  and  erecting  buildings 
and  providing  equipments  for  the  same,  in  the  same  manner  as 
for  supporting  common  schools  and  erecting  schoolhouses. 

SEC.  62.  Any  town  which  does  not  maintain  a  free  high 
school  of  standard  grade  may,  from  year  to  year,  authorize  its 
superintending  school  committee  to  contract  with  and  pay  the 
superintending  school  committee  of  any  adjoining  town  or  the 
trustees  of  any  academy  located  within  such  town  or  in  an  ad- 
joining town,  for  the  tuition  of  scholars  within  said  town  in  the 


SCHOOL   LAWS  OF   MAINE.  27 

studies  contemplated  by  the  seven  preceding  sections.  When 
such  contract  has  been  made  with  the  trustees  of  an  academy 
a  joint  committee  for  the  selection  of  teachers  and  the  arrange- 
ment of  the  course  of  study  in  such  academy  shall  include  the 
superintending  school  committees  of  the  contracting  towns  with 
an  equal  number  of  members  of  the  board  of  trustees  of  such 
academy  when  such  academy  has  less  than  ten  thousand  dollars 
endowment.  The  expenditure  of  any  town  for  tuition  as  Pr°-__towns 
vided  in  this  section  shall  be  subject  to  the  same  conditions  and 
shall  entitle  such  town  to  the  same  state  aid  as  if  it  had  made 
such  expenditure  for  a  free  high  school. 

SEC.  63.     Any  youth  who  resides  with  a  parent  or  guardian 
in  any  town  which  does  not  support  and  maintain  a  standard  supporting 
secondary  school,  may  attend  any  approved  secondary  school  to  school?, 

f      ,  ,  may  attend 

which  he  may  gam   entrance   by  permission   of   those   having  in  other 
charge  thereof,  provided  the  said  youth  shall  attend  a  school  or  1903,  c.  68, 
schools  whose  courses  are  approved  by  the  state  superintendent  i|07,  c.  73. 
of  schools,  and  in  such  case  the  tuition  of  said  youth,  not  to  1913' c-  $7- 
exceed  thirty  dollars  annually  for  any  one  youth,  shall  be  paid 
by  the  town  in  which  he  resides  as  aforesaid,  and  said  tuition 
so  paid,  shall  be  made  a  part  of  the  high  school  fund  of  the 
town  receiving   the   same;   and  towns   shall  raise  annually,  as 
other   school  moneys  are  raised,  a  sum  sufficient  to  pay  such 
tuition    charges,    provided,    however,    that   no    youth    shall    be 
entitled  to  free  tuition  under  the  provisions  of  this  section  unless 
he  shall  have  satisfactorily  passed  an  examination  in  common —examination, 
school  branches,  said  examination  having  been  given  under  the 
direction  of  the  superintendent  of  schools  of  the  town  wherein 
such  youth  resides,  on  papers  procured  from  the  state  superin- 
tendent of  public  schools,  or  unless  such  youth  shall  have  satis- 
factorily completed  a  standard  common  school  course  of  study  o7nou'rlestlon 
which  has  been  approved  by  the  state  superintendent  of  public 
schools;  except  that  any  youth  who  has  satisfactorily  completed 
the  course  of  a  B  or  C  class  high  school,  as  provided  by  chapter 
seventy-one  of  the  public  laws  of  nineteen  hundred  nine,  shall 
be  entitled  to  his  free  tuition  as  hereinbefore  provided  for  the 
completion  of  the   four  years  of  a  standard  secondary  course 
without  the   examination   herein  prescribed,  provided,   further, 
that  such  free  tuition  privilege  shall  continue  only  so  long  as 


28 


SCHOOL  LAWS  OF  MAINE:. 


Return*  to 
be  made. 
1903,  o.  68, 
§2. 
1900,  c.  112. 


— partial 
reimburse- 
ment. 


Superintend- 
ents of 
schools  shall 
make  annual 
return  to 
state  super- 
intendent. 
R.  S.,  c.  11, 
§35. 

1901,  c.  197, 
§2. 
1909,  c.  28. 


— state 
superintend- 
ent to  certify 
amounts  to 
which  towns 
are  entitled. 


— penalty  for 
defrauding 
the  state. 


said  youth  shall  maintain  a  satisfactory  standard  of  deportment 
and  scholarship.  It  shall  be  the  duty  of  superintendents  of 
schools  to  issue  certificates  of  free  tuition  privilege  to  persons 
who  may  be  entitled  to  free  tuition  under  the  provisions  of  this 
section. 

SEC.  64.  When  any  town  shall  have  been  required  to  pay 
and  has  paid  tuition  as  aforesaid  the  superintending  school  com- 
mittee of  such  town  shall  make  a  return  under  oath  to  the  state 
superintendent  of  public  schools  before  the  first  day  of  Septem- 
ber for  the  preceding  school  year,  stating  the  name  of  each  youth 
for  whom  tuition  has  been  paid,  the  amount  paid  for  each,  and 
the  name  and  location  of  the  school  which  each  has  attended 
and  thereupon  shall  be  paid,  annually  in  the  month  of  Decem- 
ber, from  the  state  treasury  out  of  the  appropriation  for  the 
support  of  free  high  schools,  to  each  town  paying  tuition  and 
making  return  as  aforesaid,  a  sum  equal  to  two-thirds  of  the 
amount  thus  paid  by  such  town  not  exceeding  five  hundred  dol- 
lars. 

SEC.  65.  Superintendents  shall,  annually,  before  the  first 
day  of  July,  make  returns  under  oath  to  the  state  superintendent, 
on  blanks  prepared  and  sent  out  by  him,  of  the  amount  appro- 
priated and  the  amount  expended  by  each  town  or  precinct  for 
instruction  in  such  free  high  schools  during  the  current  year ; 
also  of  the  amount  appropriated  and  the  amount  expended  for 
common  school  purposes  by  each  town  maintaining  the  same ; 
the  number  of  weeks  during  which  such  schools  have  been 
taught;  the  wages  paid  each  teacher;  the  number  of  pupils  reg- 
istered; the  average  attendance;  the  number  of  pupils  in  each 
branch  of  study  pursued,  and  the  amount  received  for  tuition. 
If  the  state  superintendent  is  satisfied  that  the  provisions  of 
sections  fifty-five  to  six-two  have  been  complied  with,  he  shall 
certify  to  the  governor  and  council  the  sum  which  each  town 
or  precinct  is  entitled  to  receive  from  the  state.  Any  town  or 
precinct,  dissatisfied  with  his  decision,  may  appeal  to  the  gov- 
ernor and  council  and  the  governor  and  council  shall  issue  a 
certificate  to  the  treasurer  of  the  town  or  agent  of  the  precinct, 
for  such  amount  as  they  adjudge  such  town  or  precinct  entitled 
to  receive  from  the  state  treasury.  Any  person  connected  with 
the  management  of  such  free  high  schools,  either  as  teacher, 


SCHOOL   LAWS  OF   MAINE.  29 

agent  or  superintendent,  who  in  any  way  aids  or  abets  in  de- 
frauding the  state  into  the  payment  in  support  of  said  schools 
of  more  than  is  contemplated  by  this  chapter,  shall  forfeit  not 
less  than  five  hundred  dollars,  or  be  imprisoned  in  the  county 
jail  not  less  than  one  year. 

SEC.  66.     When   a   free  high  school  precinct  votes  to  raise  High  school 

precinct 

money  for  establishing  and  maintaining  a  free  high  school,  its  taxes,  how 
clerk  shall  forthwith,  or  within  the  time  prescribed  by  the  pre-  collected.^ 
cinct,  certify  the  amount  thereof  to  the  assessors  of  the  town,  §g7|.  ^  ^ 
and  the  time  when   it  must  be  raised  ;  and  within  sixty  days 
after  receiving  such  certificate  they  shall  assess  it  as  they  do 
town  taxes,  on  the  polls  and  estates  of  the  residents  and  owners 
in  the  precinct  at  the  time  of  raising  said  money,  whether  wholly 
in  their  towrn  or  not,  and  on  the  non-resident  real  estate  in  the 
precinct.     They  shall  then  make  their  warrant  in  due  form  of 
law,  directed  to  any  collector  of  their  town  if  any,  if  npt  to  a 
constable,  requiring  him  to  levy  and  collect  such  tax  and  pay  it 
to  the  town  treasurer  within  the  time  limited  ii}  the  warrant; 
and  they  shall  give  a  certificate  of  the  assessment  to  such  treas- 
urer, and  may  abate  such  taxes  as  in  the  case  of  town  taxes. 

SEC.  67.     The  assessors  may  include  in  their  assessment  such  Assessors 
sum  over  and  above  the  sum  committed  to  them  to  assess,  not  to  assess 


exceeding  five  per  cent,  thereof,  as  a  fractional  division  renders  Svertay' 
necessary,  and  certify  that  fact  to  the  town  treasurer.  §  76."  ° 

SEC.  68.     The  town  treasurer  shall  pay  the  expense  of  assess-  Expense  of 


ing  and  collecting  any  free  high  school  precinct  tax  out  of  the  how  paid. 
money  of  the  precinct,  upon  the  order  of  the  selectmen.  §77.' 


SEC.  69.     Section  thirty-one  of  chapter  ten,  and  all  other  sec- 
tions  relating  to  the  same  subject  apply  to  taxes  assessed  by  or 
for  free  high  school  precincts,  so  far  as  applicable;  but  the  gJ^^J^ 
precinct  and  not  the  town  is  liable. 

SEC.  70.     The  collector  or  constable,  and  the  town  treasurer,  dutieTof  ad 
or  treasurer  and  collector,  if  one  person  is  both,  each  have  the  theirCcom- 

pensation. 

same  powers  and  are  subject  to  the  same  duties  and  obligations  R.  s.,  c.  11, 
in  relation  to  free  high  school  precinct  taxes,  as  to  town  taxes  ; 
and  they  and  the  assessors  shall  be  allowed  by  the  precinct  for 
their  services,  a  compensation  proportionate  to  what  they  receive 
from  the  town  for  similar  services. 


SCHOOL   LAWS  OF   MAINE. 


Money  at 

disposal  of 

agent. 

R.  S.,  c.  11, 

§80. 

Trustees  of 
academies, 
etc.,  may 
surrender 
property  to 
establish 
free  high 
schools. 
R.  S.,  c.  11, 
§36. 


Property, 
how  con- 
veyed. 
R.  S.,  c.  11, 
§37. 


Income  of 
property, 
how  applied. 
R.  S.,  c.  11, 
§38. 
1913,  c.  70. 


-ciualifi  ca- 
tion of 
pupils,  how 
determined. 


Tuition  to  be 
paid  by  non- 
residents. 
R.  S.,  c.  11, 
§  39. 


SEC.  71.  The  money  so  raised  and-  paid  shall  be  at  the  dis- 
posal of  the  precinct  agent,  to  be  by  him  expended  as  provided 
in  section  sixty. 

SEC.  72.  The  trustees  of  any  academy  or  other  corporation 
formed  for  educational  purposes  may  by  a  majority  vote  of 
such  of  said  trustees  as  reside  in  the  state,  surrender  the  whole, 
or  any  part  of  the  property  belonging  thereto,  to  the  municipal 
officers  of  any  town,  or  the  trustees  of  any  school  fund  in  any 
town  in  which  said  academy  or  corporation  is  situated,  for  turn- 
ing the  same  into  a  free  high  school  as  hereinafter  provided, 
and  said  municipal  officers  or  trustees,  for  the  time  being,  shall 
be  a  board  of  trustees  to  take  and  hold  said  property  for  main- 
taining a  free  high  school ;  and  upon  receiving  said  property, 
they  shall  use  proper  diligence  to  make  the  same  produce  in- 
come for  the  support  of  said  free  high  school. 

SEC. -73.  When  such  vote  is  so  passed,  the  treasurer  of  said 
trustees  shall  convey,  assign  and  deliver  to  the  municipal  officers 
of  said  town,  or  the  trustees  of  such  fund,  all  property  belong- 
ing to  said  academy  or  corporation  for  the  purposes  indicated 
by  the  preceding  section. 

SEC.  74.  The  municipality  accepting  the  property  in  trust,  as 
named  in  section  seventy-two,  shall  apply  the  income  thereof 
towards  the  support  of  a  free  high  school  to  be  kept  within  said 
municipality,  within  the  requirements  of  the  laws  relating  to 
the  establishment  and  maintenance  of  free  high  schools,  and 
provide  suitable  accommodations  for  the  same,  and  the  super7 
intending  school  committee  in  said  municipality  shall  determine 
the  qualifications  necessary  to  entitle  any  applicant  to  enter  or 
attend  said  free  high  school,  and  no  one  shall  attend  it  without 
certificate  of  said  officers  to  that  effect. 

SEC.  75.  All  scholars  residing  within  the  municipality  afore- 
said, having  such  certificate,  may  attend  said  school  without 
tuition  fee,  and  all  scholars  not  residents  of  said  municipality, 
may  attend  said  school  upon  such  terms  and  conditions  as  said 
superintending  school  committee  may  impose. 


SCHOOL   LAWS  OF   MAINE.  31 

SEC.  76.     Whenever  it  shall  be  made  to  appear  to  the  gov-  Academies 
ernor  and  council,  from  returns  made  as  herein  provided,  that  jjj 
any  incorporated  academy  in  the  state  is  prepared  to  give  in-  Jo 
struction  equivalent  to  that  required  by  law  to  be  given  in  free  hi 
high  schools,  that  the  pupils  attending  the  said  academy,  are  annual 

stipend. 

qualified  to  receive  such  instruction,  and  that  the  teachers  in  1001,  c.  us, 
the  said  academy  have  the  qualifications  fitting  them  to  give  in-  i?p7,  c.  102, 
struction   in  secondary  school  studies,   such   academy   shall  be 
entitled  to  receive  annually  from  the  state  a  sum  not  exceeding 
five  hundred  dollars  in  case  it  maintains  an  English  secondary 
school  course  of  study  as  prescribed  by  the  state  superintendent 
of  public  schools,  or  a  sum  not  exceeding  seven  hundred  and 

—  mamtam- 


. 

fifty  dollars   in   case   it   maintains    in   addition   to   an   English 
course,  a  college  preparatory  course,  or  a  sum  not  exceeding  one  course. 
thousand  dollars  in  case  it  maintains  an  English  course,  a  col-  _maintain_ 
lege   preparatory   course   and   a   training   course    for   teachers,  {Jon^  tiln- 
provided  the  courses  of  study  herein  named  shall  be  subject  tom' 
the  approval  of  the  state  superintendent  of  public  schools,  and 
provided  that  the  amount  paid  by  the   state  to   any  academy 
under  this  section  shall  be  expended  by  the  said  academy  for 
instruction  during  the  year   for  which  payment  is   made,  and 
shall  not  exceed  the  total  income  of  the  said  academy  from  all 
other  sources;   and   provided   further,  that  in  addition   to  the  i 
amount  received  from  the  state,  a  sum  equal  thereto  shall  be 
expended  for  instruction  and  maintenance  of  the  academy  dur- 
ing said  year;  and  provided  further,  that  every  academy  receiv-  _  rovide 
ing    money    from   the   state   under   this    section    shall    provide 
instruction  as   contemplated  by  this   section   for  not  less  than 
thirty  weeks  in  each  year;  and  provided  further,  that  no  acad- 
emy shall  be  credited  with  maintaining  a  course  of  study  under 
this  section  unless  the  said  academy  shall  have  an  average  of 
not  less  than  twelve  students  in  said  course. 

SEC.  77.     The  governor  and  council  may  draw  warrants  on  How  pay 
the  treasurer  of  state  for  the  payment  annually  to  the  legal  rep-  ^mad?*11 
resentatives  of  such  academies,  as  shall  be  entitled  to  receive  §92.lf  c'  148> 
money  from  the  state  under  the  preceding  section,  at  the  times 
and  in  the  manner  provided  by  law  for  the  payment  of  money 


SCHOOL   LAWS  OF    MAINE. 


Conditions  of 

state  aid. 

1901,  c.  148, 

§3. 

1913,  c.  70. 


Incorpora- 
tion. 

1901,  c.  148, 
§4.  -^ 

1907,  c.  91. 

Attendance. 
1901,  c.  148, 
§5. 
1907,  c.  102, 

§2. 


Income. 

1901,  c.  148, 

§6. 

1907,  c.  78. 

1909,  c.  102, 

§2. 


Institutions 
receiving 
state  aid 
shall  make 
report  to 
state  super- 
intendent. 
1897,  c.  246. 
1901,  c.  148, 
§7. 


in  aid  of  free  high  schools,  the  amounts  to  which  they  shall  be 
severally  entitled  thereunder;  provided,  that  no  payment  shall 
be  made  to  any  academy  until  the  state  superintendent  of  pub- 
lic schools  shall  have  certified  to  the  governor  and  council  all 
the  facts  which  by  law  are  made  necessary  to  entitle  an  academy 
to  receive  money  from  the  state  under  the  preceding  section. 

SEC.  78.  No  town  shall  receive  state  aid  under  the  provisions 
of  section  sixty-two  of  this  chapter  if  a  free  high  school  of 
standard  grade  is  maintained  in  such  town. 

SEC.  79.  No  academy  shall  receive  state  aid  under  section 
seventy-six  unless  incorporated  prior  to  May  one,  nineteen  hun- 
dred and  seven. 

SEC.  80.  No  academy  shall  receive  state  aid  under  section 
seventy-six  unless  the  average  attendance  in  said  academy  for 
the  year  preceding  or  for  five  years  next  preceding  shall  exceed 
thirty  students,  and  no  academy  shall  receive  to  exceed  five 
hundred  dollars  unless  the  average  attendance  in  said  academy 
for  the  year  preceding  shall  exceed  sixty  students. 

*SEC.  81.  No  academy  shall  receive  state  aid  under  section 
seventy-six  if  said  academy  has  an  annual  income  from  invested 
funds  exceeding  sixteen  hundred  dollars,  and  no  academy  shall 
receive  state  aid  to  exceed  five  hundred  dollars  in  any  given 
year  provided  the  said  academy  has  an  annual  income  from 
invested  funds  exceeding  one  thousand  dollars. 

SEC.  82.  Every  educational  institution  receiving  state  aid, 
and  the  officers  and  teachers  of  every  academy  receiving  money 
from  the  state  under  the  six  preceding  sections,  shall  annually, 
on  or  before  the  first  day  of  January,  report  to  the  state  super- 
intendent of  public  schools  the  total  and  average  attendance,  an 
itemized  account  of  all  the  moneys  received  and  expended  dur- 
ing the  preceding  year,  the  number  of  instructors,  number  and 
length  of  terms,  with  attendance  for  each,  and  answer  such 
other  questions  as  he  shall  require,  and  shall  make  such  further 
report  to  him  as  he  may  from  time  to  time  require.  Such 
reports  shall  be  published  in  the  annual  report  of  the  state 
superintendent  of  public  schools.  Every  such  educational  insti- 


*  See  also  An   Act   for   the   encouragement   of  Industrial   Education, 
Chapter  188,  P.  L.,  1911. 


SCHOOL   LAWS  OF   MAINE.  33 

tution  failing  to  comply  with  the  above  requirements  shall  for- 
feit whatever  aid  or  assistance  it  would  otherwise  receive  from 
the  state.  Wherever  in  sections  seventy-six  to  eighty-two  i 
sive,  the  word  "academy"  occurs,  it  shall  be  construed 

,      ,  .  ,.  or  institute." 

include     seminary  or  institute. 

DUTIES    AND    QUALIFICATIONS    OF    INSTRUCTORS. 

SEC.  83.     Presidents  of  colleges  are  removable  at  the  pleas-  o/ 
ure  of  the  trustees  and  overseers,  whose  concurrence  is  neces- 
sary  for  their  election.  fits'.  c'n' 

SEC.  84.     No  officer  of  a  college  shall  receive  as  perquisites  Fees  for 
any  fees  for  a  diploma  or  medical  degree  conferred  by  such  Regse,ec'.  11, 
college,  but  such  fees  shall  be  paid  into  the  college  treasury. 


SEC.  85.     Every  teacher  of  a  public  school  shall  keep  a  regis- 
ter  thereof,  containing  the  names  of  all  the  scholars  who  enter  gsg16^  n 
the  school,  their  ages,  the  dates  of  each  scholar's  entering  and  §  96> 
leaving,  the  number  of  days  during  which  each  attended,  the 
length  of  the  school,  the  teacher's  wages,  a  list  of  text-books 
used,  and  all  other  facts  required  by  the  blank  form  furnished 
him  ;  such  register  shall  at  all  times  be  open  to  the  inspection  of 
the  school  committee,  and  be  returned  to  them  at  the  close  of 
the  school.    Teachers  may  be  paid  for  their  services  at  the  close 
of    each    school    month,    but    no    teacher    shall    receive    final 
payment   for  services    for   any  term  until  the  register  herein  —payment  t 
described,  properly  filled,  completed,  and   signed,   is  deposited  sendees.  ei 
with  the  school  committee,  or  with  a  person  designated  by  them 
to  receive  it. 

SEC.  86.     The  presidents,  professors  and  tutors  of  colleges,  P^ofre 
the  preceptors  and  teachers  of  academies,  and  all  other  instruct-  R^^II, 
ors  of  youth,  in  public  or  private  institutions,  shall  use  their  §  97' 
best  endeavors  to  impress  on  the  minds  of  the  children  and 
youth  committed  to  their  care  and  instruction,  the  principles  of 
morality  and  justice,  and  a  sacred  regard  for  truth;  love  of 
country,  humanity  and  a  universal  benevolence  ;  sobriety,  indus- 
try and  frugality  ;  chastity,  moderation  and  temperance  ;  and  all 
other  virtues  which  ornament  human  society  ;  and  to  lead  those 
under  their  care,  as  their  ages  and  capacity  admit,  into  a  par- 


34 


SCHOOL   LAWS  OF    MAINE. 


— kindness 
to  birds 
and  animals 
shall  be 
taught. 
1891,  c.  29. 

Forfeitures 

for  teaching 

without  a 

certificate. 

R.  S.,  c.  11, 

§98. 

1889,  c.  225. 


ticular  understanding  of  the  tendency  of  such  virtues  to  pre- 
serve and  perfect  a  republican  constitution,  secure  the  blessings 
of  liberty,  and  to  promote  their  future  happiness;  and  the 
tendency  of  the  opposite  vices,  to  slavery,  degradation  and  ruin ; 
all  teachers  in  the  public  schools  of  the  state  shall  devote  not 
less  than  ten  minutes  of  each  week  of  the  school  term,  to  teach- 
ing to  the  children  under  their  charge,  the  principles  of  kindness 
to  birds  and  animals.  - 

*SEC.  87.  Whoever  teaches  a  public  school  without  first  ob^ 
taming  a  certificate  from  the  superintendent  of  schools  of  the 
town,  forfeits  not  exceeding  the  sum  contracted  for  his  daily 
wages,  for  each  day  he  so  teaches,  and  is  barred  from  receiving 
pay  therefor;  and  no  certificate  shall  be  valid  for  more  than  one 
year,  without  the  approval  of  the  superintendent  of  schools 
annually  endorsed  thereon. 


School 
holidays. 
1901,  c.  202. 
1905,  c.  48, 
§  U. 
1907,  c.  48, 

1909,  c.  190, 

1911,  c.  23. 
1913,  c.  195. 

— proviso 
regarding 
Arbor  day. 


— proviso 
regarding 
Lincoln  day. 


SCHOOL    HOLIDAYS. 

SEC.  88.  The  following  days  shall  be  observed  as  school 
holidays,  namely:  Washington's  birthday,  February  twenty- 
two;  Patriot's  day,  April  nineteen;  Memorial  day,  May  thirty; 
Independence  day,  July  four;  Labor  day,  first  Monday  in 
September;  Columbus  day,  October  twelve;  Christmas  day, 
December  twenty-five;  Thanksgiving  and  Arbor  day,  as  ap- 
pointed by  the  governor  and  council.  Provided,  however,  that 
Arbor  day,  shall  not  be  recognized  as  a  school  holiday  unless 
observed  by  teacher  and  pupils  for  the  purpose  for  which  it  is 
designated  by  the  governor  and  council.  And  provided,  further, 
that  Lincoln  day  shall  be  observed  by  devoting  some  part  of 
the  day  to  the  study  of  the  life  and  character  of  Abraham 
Lincoln.  All  teachers  of  public  schools  in  the  state  may  close 
their  schools  and  draw  pay  the  same  as  if  their  schools  had  been 
in  session  on  any  of  the  following  days:  Patriot's  day,  April 
nineteen;  Memorial  day,  May  thirty;  Independence  day,  July 
four;  Labor  day,  first  Monday  in  September:  Christmas  day, 

*  Non-effective  after  Sept.  I,  1914,  by  provisions  of  An  Act  to  provide 
for  the  state  certification  of  all  teachers  of  public  schools.  Chapter  =;8, 
P.  L.,  1:913. 


SCHOOL   LAWS   OF   MAINE.  35 

December  twenty-five;  Thanksgiving  day,  as  appointed  by  the 
governor  and  council.  When  any  one  of  the  above  named 
holidays  falls  on  a  Sunday,  the  Monday  following  shall 
be  observed  as  a  school  holiday,  with  all  the  privileges 
applying  to  any  of  the  days  above  named.  In  addition 
to  the  foregoing  each  of  the  days  hereinafter  named 

—  days  to  be 

shall,  upon  vote  of  the  superintending  school  committee  of  any  Jote^su"  e?n 
town,  be  observed  by  teachers  and  pupils  of  the  public  schools  ^Sj}1^. 
of  said  town  by  an  exercise  appropriate  thereto,  such  exercise  mittee- 
to  be  held  during  such  paft  of  the  school  session  as  the  teacher 
of  each  school  may  designate.  The  exercises  so  held  shall  aim 
to  impress  on  the  minds  of  the  youth  the  important  lessons  of 
character  and  good  citizenship  to  be  learned  from  the  lives  of 
American  leaders  and  heroes  and  from  a  contemplation  of 
their  own  duties  and  obligations  to  the  community,  state  and 
nation  of  which  they  constitute  a  part.  In  the  absence  of  any 
vote  of  the  superintending  school  committee  said  days,  herein- 
after designated,  shall  be  observed  as  legal  school  holidays  with 
the  closing  of  schools.  The  days  thus  designated  for  school 
observance  upon  vote  of  the  superintending  school  committee 
of  any  town  shall  be  as  follows  :  Washington's  birthday,  Feb- 
ruary twenty-two;  Columbus  day,  October  twelve. 

TEACHERS'  ASSOCIATIONS. 

SEC  89.     Whenever  not  less  than  thirty  of  the  teachers  and 
school  officers  of  any  county  shall  have  formed  an  association  andCs8!ooi 


under  rules  of  government  approved  by  the  state  superintendent 

of  public  schools,  for  the  purpose  of  mutual  improvement  in  the  isss,  c.  273, 

§  !• 

science  and  art  of  teaching,  and  of  creating  popular  interest  in,  1893,  c.  283. 

and  diffusing  a  knowledge  of  the  best  method's  of  improving  our—  ^y  how 

public  school  system,  by  the  holding  of  conventions  at  least  once 

every  year  under  the  supervision  of  the  state  superintendent,  the 

state  shall  defray  the  necessary  expenses  attending  the  holding  hc^pSd!8' 

of  such  convention  for  which  purpose  the  sum  of  one  thousand 

dollars  is  hereby  annually  appropriated  to  be  deducted  and  set 

aside  therefor  by  the  treasurer  of  state  from  the  annual  school 

fund  of  the  state;  provided,  however,  that  no  more  than  two—  proviso. 


SCHOOL  LAWS  OF  MAINE;. 


Teachers 
may  suspend 
schools  dur- 
ing conven- 
tions. 

1885,  c.  273, 
§2. 


Certificates 
showing 
attendance 
must  be 
presented. 


Governor  to 
draw  war- 
rants to  pay 


1885,  c.  273, 

§3. 

1909,  c.  30. 


such  associations  shall  be  formed  in  any  county,  and  that  the 
expenses  as  aforesaid  of  no  more  than  two  conventions  of  any 
such  association  in  any  year  shall  be  defrayed  by  the  state. 

SEC.  90.  Teachers  of  public  schools  may  suspend  their 
schools  for  not  more  than  two  days  in  any  year  during  the  ses- 
sions of  such  conventions  within  their  counties  and  also  for  not 
more  than  two  days  in  any  year  during  the  sessions  of  any  state 
teachers'  convention  approved  by  the  state  superintendent  of 
public  schools,  unless  otherwise  directed  in  writing  by  the  school 
officers,  and  attend  said  conventions  without  forfeiture  of  pay 
for  the  time  of  such  attendance,  provided  they  shall  present  to 
the  officers  employing  them,  certificates  signed  by  the  secretaries 
of  such  conventions  and  countersigned  by  the  state  superin- 
tendent of  public  schools,  showing  such  attendance. 

SEC.  91.  The  governor  and  council  may  draw  warrants  on 
the  treasurer  of  state  for  the  payment  of  bills  for  the  expenses 
provided  for  in  section  eighty-nine,  when  such  bills  shall  have 
been  approved  by  the  state  superintendent  of  public  schools, 
provided,  however,  that  no  bills  shall  be  so  paid  except  those  for 
advertising  such  conventions,  and  for  services  and  actual  travel- 
ing expenses  of  speakers  and  lecturers  not  residing  in  the  coun- 
ties in  which  such  conventions  are  held. 


Powers  of 

plantations 

to  maintain 

schools. 

R.  8.,  c.  11, 

§99. 

1889,  c.  211. 


School 
moneys  of 
plantations, 
how  ex- 
pended. 
1885,  c.  281. 


SCHOOLS    IN    PLANTATIONS    AND    UNORGANIZED    TOWNSHIPS. 

SEC.  92.  Plantations  have  the  same  powers  and  liabilities  as 
towns  for  electing  superintending  school  committees,  superin- 
tendents of  schools,  treasurers  and  collectors,  and  for  raising, 
assessing  and  collecting  school  money,  to  be  apportioned  and 
expended  as  in  towns.  The  assessors  of  plantations  may  take 
a  census  of  the  inhabitants  thereof,  at  the  expense  of  the  planta- 
tion, and  when  so  taken,  the  money  raised  therein  for  schools 
shall  be  upon  the  basis  of  such  census  and  not  upon  the  census 
of  the  state. 

SEC.  93.  All  moneys  due  plantations  from  the  state  treasury 
for  school  purposes,  shall  be  paid  to  the  treasurers  of  such  plan- 
tations, under  the  same  conditions  as  in  case  of  towns,  and  the 
same  shall  be  expended  by  such  plantations,  under  the  same 
restrictions  and  limitations  as  are  required  of  towns. 


SCHOOL   LAWS  OF   MAINE.  37 


SEC.  94.     Whenever  in  any  unorganized  township  in  the  state  ff 
there  shall  be  two  or  more  children  between  the  ages  of  five  and 
twenty-one  years,  the  state  superintendent  of  public  schools  shall  $323  EJT 
cause  an  enumeration  of  said  children  to  be  made,  and  returned  §8f9'  c< 
to  him,  and  shall  provide   for  the  schooling  of  said  children, 
either  by  establishing  a  school  in  the  township,  or  by  sending  the 
children  to  schools  in  adjoining  towns  or  plantations,  or  both, 
as  shall  by  him  be  deemed  expedient.    In  case  any  of  said  chil- 
dren are,  by  the  state  superintendent,  sent  to  schools  in  adjoin-* 
ing  towns  or  plantations,  said  children  so  sent  shall  have  the 
same  rights  in  such  school  as  children  resident  in  said  town  or 
plantation.    Provided,  however,  that  in  case  the  interest  on  the  how  paid.  ' 

1903,  c.  128, 

reserve   fund  in  any  unorganized  township  together  with  the  §  i- 

1909,  c.  87f 

amount  arising  from  the  per  capita  tax  called  for  in  this  section,  §  1. 
is  not  sufficient  to  provide  schooling  for  the  children  of  said 
township  for  at  least  twenty-six  weeks  in  a  year  the  remainder 
of  the  expense  shall  be  paid  from  the  fund  appropriated  by  sec- 
tion ninety-seven.  Provided,  further,  that  no  money  shall  be 
expended  under  this  section  for  the  benefit  of  any  township 
until  the  inhabitants  of  said  township  shall  have  been  assessed 
by  the  duly  appointed  agent  therefor  the  sum  of  forty  cents  for 
each  of  said  inhabitants  resident  therein  on  the  first  day  of 
April,  and  said  agent  shall  have  made  return  of  such  assessment 
to  the  state  superintendent  of  schools.* 

SEC.  95.     The   state   superintendent  of   public   schools   shall  HOW  cost  of 

schooling 

certify  to  the  governor  and  council  the  number  and  residences  shall  be  paid. 

1899,  c.  89, 

of  the  children  enumerated  and  schooled,  as  provided  in  the  §  2. 
preceding  section,  together  with  the  cost  of  schooling  said  chil-  §  l- 
dren,  and  the  governor  and  council  shall  direct  the  treasurer  of 
state  to  pay  the  state  superintendent  of  public  schools  so  much 
of  the  interest  on  the  reserved  land   fund  of  the  township  in 
which  said  children  reside  as,  added  to  the  amount  received 
from  the  inhabitants  of  the  township  from  the  per  capita  tax, 
shall  pay  the  expense  of  said  school.    The  state  superintendent 
of  public  schools  shall  pay  to  the  treasurer  of  any  town  or  plan- 
tation in  which  he  may  school  any  of  said  children,  such  amount 


*  See  also  Chapter  62,  P.  L.  1909,  An  Act  to  extend  the  privileges  of 
secondary  instruction  to  youths  resident  in  Unorganized  Townships. 


SCHOOL   LAWS  OF   MAINE. 


Agents,  ap- 
pointment 
and  duties  of. 
1899,  c.  89, 
§3. 

1901,  c.  206, 
§2. 
1911,  c.  24. 


— authority 
of  agents. 
1903,  c.  128, 
§2. 


iy  com- 
pel attend- 
ance. 

1909,  c.  87, 
§2. 


— school 
books,  how 
supplied. 


Appropria- 
tion. 

1903,  c.  128, 
§3. 

1905,  c.  45. 
1909,  c.  87, 
§3. 

1911,  c.  29. 
1913,  c.  162. 


for  each  scholar  as  shall  be  his  proportional  part  of  the  cost  of 
the  school  to  which  he  is  sent. 

SEC.  96.  The  state  superintendent  of  public  schools  may 
appoint  agents  for  the  several  townships  in  which  schools  shall 
be  established  under  section  ninety-four,  who  shall,  under  the 
direction  of  the  state  superintendent,  enumerate  the  pupils, 
assess  and  collect  the  per  capita  tax,  employ  the  teacher  and 
attend  to  all  necessary  details  in  connection  with  said  schools; 
for  which  purpose  the  state  superintendent  is  hereby  authorized 
to  expend  annually  from  the  appropriation  for  the  support  of 
schools  in  unorganized  townships  a  sum  not  exceeding  two 
thousand  two  hundred  dollars.  Said  agents  in  the  collection  of 
the  per  capita  tax  aforesaid,  shall  have  the  same  powers  and 
may  use  the  same  methods  as  collectors  of  taxes  in  towns  are 
authorized  to  exercise  and  use  for  the  collecting  of  personal  and 
poll  taxes  committed  to  them;  said  agents  may  act  as  truant 
officers  in  their  several  townships,  and  may  in  their  discretion 
compel  the  regular  daily  attendance  at  school  of  every  child  in 
their  townships  between  the  seventh  and  seventeenth  anniver- 
saries of  his  birth  by  arresting  and  taking  to  school  any  child 
when  absent  therefrom,  and  any  parent  or  guardian  of  any  such 
child  or  children,  wilfully  refusing  to  allow  said  children  under 
his  control  to  attend  school,  or  opposing  said  agent  in  arresting 
and  taking  said  children  to  school,  may  be  prosecuted  by  said 
agent  in  the  name  of  the  state  before  the  nearest  trial  justice, 
and  if  found  guilty  shall  forfeit  a  sum  not  exceeding  twenty 
dollars  for  the  use  of  the  schools  in  the  township  wherein  said 
children  are  resident,  or  shall  be  imprisoned  for  not  exceeding 
thirty  days.  The  state  superintendent  may  supply  school  books 
for  the  schools  established  under  said  sections  under  such  con- 
ditions as  to  the  purchase  and  care  thereof  as  he  may  deem 
proper. 

SEC.  97.  For  the  purpose  of  carrying  out  the  provisions  of 
the  three  preceding  sections,  there  is  hereby  appropriated  the 
sum  of  twenty-three  thousand  dollars  annually,  which  sum  shall 
be  deducted  and  set  aside  therefor  by  the  treasurer  of  state  from 
the  annual  school  funds  of  the  state. 


SCHOOI,   LAWS  OF   MAINE.  39 

*STATE   SUPERINTENDENT  OF  PUBLIC   SCHOOLS. 

SEC.  98.     The  governor  with  the  advice  and  consent  of  t 
council  shall  appoint  a  state  superintendent  of  public  schools,  ^f 
who  shall  continue  in  office  three  years,  or  during  the  pleasure  |897%.  237. 
of  the  executive ;  vacancies  shall  be  filled  by  a  new  appointment 
for  a  like  term. 

SEC.  99.     An  office  shall  be  provided  for  him  at  the  seat  of  office  at:the 
government,  where  he  shall  preserve  all  school  reports  of  this  R-JU  c.  n, 
state  and  of  other  states  which  he  may  receive,  the  returns  from 
the  various  towns,  and  institutions  of  learning  and  such  books, 
apparatus,  maps,  charts,  works  on  education,  plans  for  school 
buildings,  models,  and  other  articles  of  interest  to  school  officers 
and  teachers  as  may  be  procured  without  expense  to  the  state. 

SEC.  100.     In   addition  to   the   duties    elsewhere   specifically  Duties. 

±v.  D.|  C.  11, 

imposed  on  him  his  duties  are  as  follows : 

I.  To  exercise  a  general  supervision  of  all  the  public  schools  J^ISf0186 
and   to  advise   and   direct   the  town   committees   and   superin-  0verIthe1°n 
tendents  in  the  discharge  of  their  duties,  by  circular  letters  andsc 
personal  conference,  devoting  all  his  time  to  the  duties  of  his 

office. 

II.  To  obtain  information  as  to  the  school  systems  of  other  Obtain  in* 

'  formation 

states  and  countries,  and  the  condition  and  progress  of  public  JJJgJJj}"18 
school  education  throughout  the  world;  to  disseminate  this  in-systems- 
formation,  with  such  practical  hints  upon  the  conduct  of  schools, 
improved  systems  of  instruction,  and  the  true  theory  of  educa-  Resolves, 
tion  as  observation  and  investigation  convince  him  to  be  im- 1901! 
portant,  by  public  addresses,  circulars  and  articles  prepared  for 
the  press,  and  by  outlines,  suggestions  and  directions  concerning 
the  management,  discipline  and  methods  employed  in  teaching, 
prepared  for  and  distributed  among  the  teachers  of  the  schools 
and  school  officers  of  the  state;  and  to  do  all  in  his  power  to 
awaken  and  sustain  an  interest  in  education  among  the  people, 
and  to  stimulate  teachers  to  well-directed  efforts  in  their  work. 

III.  To  take  such  measures  as  he  deems  necessary  to  secure  state  edu-  •? 

cational  con- 

the  holding  of  a  state  educational  convention  once  each  year, ventions- 

*  See  also  Chapter  171,  P.  L.  1907,  as  amended,  An  Act  relating  to  the 
State  Superintendent  of  Public  Schools. 


SCHOOL   LAWS  OF   MAINE. 


Summer 
training 
schools. 
Resolves  of 
1895,  1897, 
1899,  1901. 


Publish 
abstract  of 
proceedings. 


Issue  copies 
of  school 
laws  and 
circulars  of 
information. 
1889,  c.'307. 


Prescribe 
studies  to  be 
taught. 


Furnish  rec- 
ord books 
to  school 
officers. 
1897,  c.  273. 


Assume 
control  of 
schools 
maintained 
by  gifts  so 
conditioned. 
1901,  c.  135. 


with  a  view  of  bringing  together  the.  teachers,  school  commit- 
tees, school  superintendents,  and  friends  of  education,  for  con- 
sultation with  reference  to  the  interest  of  public  schools  and  the 
most  approved  method  of  instruction. 

*IV.  To  encourage  the  formation  of  county  teachers'  asso- 
ciations, approve  rules  of  government  therefor,  and  to  supervise 
the  conduct  oi  conventions  held  by  such  associations.  He  shall 
also  conduct  summer  training  schools  for  teachers,  whenever 
provision  is  made  by  the  legislature  for  holding  such  schools. 

V.  To  prepare  and  cause  to  be  printed  and  distributed  such 
portions  of  the  proceedings  of  state  institutes  or  teachers'  con- 
ventions as  he  deems  important  in  the  furtherance  of  education. 

VI.  Biennially,  as  soon  as  practicable  after  the  adjournment 
of  the  legislature,  to  compile  and  distribute,  in  pamphlet  form, 
to  the  municipal  and  school  officers  of  the  several  towns,  three 
thousand  copies  of  the  amended  school  laws  of  the  state ;  and  to 
prepare  and  issue  thus  biennially,  such  circulars  of  information 
and  advice  to  school  officers,  relating  to  new  school  enactments, 
as   he  shall   deem   necessary   for  the   intelligent   and   effectual 
enforcement  of  such  enactments. 

VII.  To  prescribe  the  studies  to  be  taught  in  the  common 
schools,  reserving  to   town  committees   the  right   to  prescribe 
additional  studies. 

VIII.  To  furnish  to  the  school  officers  of  each  town,  proper 
blank  books  in  which  shall  be  kept  complete  and  itemized  rec- 
ords of  all  matters  relating  to  moneys  appropriated,   received 
and  expended   for  schools,  which  said  books  shall  remain  the 
property  of  the  state. 

IX.  To  assume  the  control  and  management  of  all  free  pub- 
lic schools  established  and  maintained  by  gifts  or  bequests,  when 
said  gifts  or  bequests  are  conditioned  upon  said  state  superin- 
tendent assuming  such  control  and  management;  and  he  shall 
carry  out  the  provisions  upon  which  such  gifts  or  bequests  are 
conditioned,  when  said  conditions  are  approved  by  the  governor 
and  council. 


See  Chapter  188,  Res.  1901. 


SCHOOL   LAWS  OF   MAINE.  41 

X.  To  perform  all  duties  imposed  upon  him  by  any  charter  Perform 

duties  im- 

or  charters  granted  by  the  legislature  to  educational  institutions  p^ed^y 
in  the  state.  *901'  ™'272- 

XI.  Annually,   to   report  to   the  governor   and  council   the 
result  of  his  inquiries  and  investigations,  and  the  facts  obtained 
from  the   school    returns,    with    such   suggestions    and    recom- 
mendations as  in  his  judgment  will  best  promote  the  improve- 
ment of  public  schools. 

SEC.   101.     The   state  superintendent  shall  prepare   and  feu> 
nish  to  the  town  officers  such  blanks  as  he  deems  proper  to  J?wnf return- 
secure  the  fiscal  returns  required  in  section  twenty-eight.     HeRgss*meii, 
shall  return  to  the  treasurer  of  state  on  the  first  day  of  July 
annually,  a  list  of  such  towns  as  have  made  such  fiscal  returns ; 
and  no  school  moneys  shall  be  paid  by  the  treasurer  of  state  to 
any  town,  so  long  as  it  neglects  to  make  such  returns. 

SEC.   1 02.     He   shall  prepare  and  print  blank  forms   for  all  Blanks  for 

annual  school 

other   returns  required   by  law,   or  deemed  by  him  necessary,  retuma. 
and  shall,  on  the  first  day  of  each  March,  forward  to  the  super-  §  ios. 

1913t  c.  99. 

intendents  of  schools  of  the  several  towns,  blanks  for  the  an- 
nual school  return  as  provided  by  section  thirty-seven,  and  shall, 
on  the  first  day  of  each  May,  forward  to  said  superintendents 
blanks  for  the  returns  required  by  section  thirty-eight. 

SEC.   103.     He  shall,   on  the  first  day  of   each  June,  notify  Notify  de- 
the  school  committee  of  any  town  whose  returns  were  not  re-  committees; 
ceived  at  his  office  in  May,   and  shall,  annually,  ascertain  on  treasurer  of 

state  number 

the  first  day  of  July  the  number  of  children  between  five  and  °[is1^°°1 
twenty-one  years  of  age,  in  the  towns  from  which  returns  are^g-  c- 11- 
received,  and  furnish  a  list  thereof  to  the  treasurer  of  state. 

(Sections  104,  105,  106,  107  and  108  are  repealed  by  the  pro- 
visions of  Chapter-  58,  P.  L.  1913,  An  Act  to  provide  for  the 
state  certification  of  all  teachers  of  public  schools.) 

NORMAL    SCHOOLS    AND    MADAWASKA    TRAINING    SCHOOL. 

SEC.   109.     The  northern  normal  school  at  Farmington,  the 
eastern  normal  school  at  Castine,  the  western  normal  school 
Gorham,  the  Washington  state  normal  school  at  Machias,  and^cated. 
the  Aroostook  county  normal  school  at  Presque  Isle,  shall  be  yj?'c  211 
conducted  for  the  purposes  and  upon  the  principles  herein  set  1913>  c-  108- 
forth. 


SCHOOL   LAWS  Otf   MAINE. 


Their 
objects. 


Course  of 
study. 


Art  of 
school  man- 
agement. 


Christianity 
and  morality 
to  be  taught 
without  sec- 
tarianism. 


Principals 
of  normal 
schools  or 
normal  de- 
partments 
to  forward 
statistics 
of  students 
therein  to 
state  super- 
intendent. 


Course  of 
study. 
R.  S.,  c.  11, 
§  108 
1895,  c.75. 


Diplomas  to 
be  issued. 
R.  S.,  c.  11, 
§  109. 

Applicants 
for  admis- 
sion, quali- 
fications of. 
R.  S.,  c.  11, 
§  110. 
1909,  c.  27. 


I.  They  shall  be  thoroughly  devoted,  to  the  training  of  teach- 
ers for  their  professional  labors. 

II.  The  course  of  study  shall  include  the  common  English 
branches  in  thorough  reviews,  and  such  of  the  higher  branches 
as  are   especially  adapted   to  prepare  teachers  to  conduct  the 
mental,  moral  and  physical  education  of  their  pupils. 

III.  The  art  of  school  management,  including  the  best  meth- 
ods of  government  and  instruction,  shall  have  a  prominent  place 
in  the  daily  exercises  of  said  schools. 

IV.  Said  schools,  while  teaching  the  fundamental  truths  of 
Christianity,  and  the  great  principles  of  morality,  recognized  by 
law,  shall  be  free  from  all  denominational  teachings,  and  open 
to    persons    of    different    religious    connections    on    terms    of 
equality. 

V.  The  principals  of  the  normal  schools  and  of  all  other 
schools  in  which  normal  departments  are  supported,  wholly  or 
in  part,  by  the  state,  shall  keep  a  register  containing  the  names 
of  all  students  entering  such  schools  or  departments,  the  date  of 
entering  and  leaving,  their  ages,  number  of  days'  attendance, 
the  length  of  the  term,  a  list  of  text-books  used,  and  all  other 
information  required  in  the  blanks  furnished  by  the  state  super- 
intendent.    Such  register  and  blanks  shall  be  returned  to  said 
superintendent  by  the  first  day  of  each  December,  and  the  in- 
formation so  furnished  shall  appear  in  his  annual  report,  for  the 
use  of  the  legislature. 

SEC.  no.  The  course  of  study  shall  occupy  two  years  with 
suitable  vacations;  and  with  the  terms  of  admission  shall  be 
arranged  by  said  superintendent,  subject  to  the  approval  of  the 
governor  and  council.  The  trustees  may  arrange  for  a  course 
of  study,  occupying  three  or  four  years,  for  such  students  as 
elect  to  pursue  the  same. 

SEC.  in.  Any  student  who  completes  the  course  of  study 
prescribed,  and  otherwise  complies  with  the  regulations  of  the 
school,  shall  receive  a  diploma  certifying  the  same. 

SEC.  112.  Applicants  for  admission  shall  be  sixteen  years  of 
age  if  females,  and  seventeen  if  males,  and  shall  signify  their 
intention  to  become  teachers  and  come  under  obligation  to  teach 


SCHOOL   LAWS  OF   MAINE  43 

in  this  state  for  at  least  one  year,  and  if  they  receive  a  diploma, 
two  years  after  they  have  graduated;  on  these  conditions  they 
shall  be  received  without  charge  for  tuition. 

SEC.  113.     Said  schools  on  and  after  July  fifteen,  nineteen  no^r c 
hundred  thirteen,  shall  be  under  the  direction  of  a  board  of  pointment, 
five  trustees,  four  of  whom  shall  be  appointed  by  the  governor  R^s.,  c.  11, 
with  the  advice  and  consent  of  the  council,  for  terms  of  one,  J^jjs,  c.  11^ 
two,  three  and  four  years  respectively,  and  the  trustees  thereaf-  1913>  c- 109t 
ter   appointed   shall  hold  office   for   four  years   and   not   more 
than  two  of  the  four  appointive  members  shall  be  of  the  same 
political  party.     The  state  superintendent  of  public  schools  is, 
by  virtue  of  his  office,  a  member  of  the  said  board  of  normal 
school  trustees.     Said  board  shall  have  charge  of  the  general 
interests  of  said  schools ;  shall  see  that  the  affairs  thereof  are 
conducted  as  required  by  law  and  by  such  by-laws  as  the  board 
adopt;  employ  teachers  and  lecturers  for  the  same;  and,  annu — annual 

financial 

ally,  on  the  first  dav  of  December  lay  before   the  governor  statement  to 

governor 

and  council,  for  the  information  of  the  legislature,  a  financial and  council, 
statement,   furnishing  an  accurate  detailed  account  of  the  re- 
ceipts and  expenditures  for  the  school  year  preceding. 

SEC.  114.     The  trustees  of  state  normal  schools  shall  main-  Madawaska 
tain  for  not  less  than  eight  months  annually,  the  Madawaska  scho^Lg 

1887    c   82 

Training  School,  at  Fort  Kent,  for  the  purpose  of  training 
persons  to  teach  in  the  common  schools  of  Madawaska  territory, 
so  called,  which  school  shall  be  under  their  control  and  direc- 
tion, in  the  same  manner  and  to  the  same  extent  as  the  other 
state  normal  schools. 

SEC.  115.     For  the  support  of  the  five  normal  schools  and 
the  Madawaska  Training  School,  the  sum  of  eighty-five  thous- 
and  dollars  is  appropriated  for  the  year  nineteen  hundred  and  Rs,^'.  11, 
thirteen  and  the  sum  of  eighty-five  thousand  dollars  is  annually  i897,'c.  308. 

1903,  c.  219. 

appropriated  thereafter  to  be  expended  under  the  direction  of  iQ09,  c.  106. 

1911,  c.  186. 

said  trustees,  which  sum  the  treasurer  of  state  shall  deduct  for 1913- c-  45- 
said  purpose  from  any  school  money  raised  for  the  support  of 
common  schools.    The  governor  and  council  may  from  time  to 
time,   as  they  think  proper,   draw   warrants  therefor  on   said 
treasurer  in  favor  of  said  trustees. 


44 


SCHOOL   LAWS  OF   MAINE. 


Blind  chil- 
dren may 
be  educated 
at  Perkins 
Institute. 
1899,  c.  2. 


— proviso. 
1913,  c.  46. 


— expenses 
shall  be 
paid  by 
state. 
— proviso. 


INSTRUCTION    FOR   THE    -BLIND. 

SEC.  116.  Upon  the  request  of  the  parents  or  guardians,  the 
governor  may,  with  the  approval  of  the  council,  send  such  blind 
children  as  he  may  deem  fit  subjects  for  education,  for  a  term 
not  exceeding  ten  years,  and  thereafter  in  the  discretion  of  the 
governor  and  council,  in  the  case  of  any  pupil,  to  the  Perkins 
Institute  for  the  blind  at  South  Boston,  Massachusetts,  pro- 
vided, however,  that  when  the  authorities  in  charge  of  said 
Perkins  Institute  for  the  Blind  shall  refuse  for  any  reason,  to 
admit  such  blind  children  to  said  institute  then  the  governor 
may,  with  the  approval  of  the  council,  send  such  children  so 
refused  to  any  institution  for  the  blind  wherever  located.  In 
the  exercise  of  the  discretionary  power  conferred  by  this  sec- 
tion, no  distinction  shall  be  made  on  account  of  the  wealth  or 
poverty  of  the  parents  or  guardians  of  such  children.  No  such 
pupils  shall  be  withdrawn  from  such  institution  except  with 
the  consent  of  the  proper  authorities  thereof  or  of  the  governor; 
and  the  sums  necessary  for  the  support  and  instruction  of  such 
pupils  in  such  institution,  including  all  traveling  expenses  of 
such  pupils  attending  such  institution  shall  be  paid  by  the  state ; 
provided,  however,  that  nothing  herein  contained  shall  be  held 
to  prevent  the  voluntary  payment  of  the  whole  or  any  part  of 
such  sums  by  the  parents  or  guardians  of  such  pupils. 


Forfeiture, 
how  recov- 
ered and  ap- 
gropriated. 
.  S.,  c.  11, 
§  113. 


— neglect  to 

expend 

money. 


Penalty  for 
disturbing 
schools. 
R.  S.,  c.  11, 
§  114. 


PENAL    PROVISIONS    AFFECTING    SCHOOLS. 

SEC.  117.  Forfeitures  under  this  chapter,  not  otherwise  pro- 
vided for,  may  be  recovered  by  indictment,  and  shall  be  paid 
into  the  treasury  of  the  town  where  they  occurred,  for  the  sup- 
port of  schools,  therein,  in  addition  to  the  amount  required  by 
law  to  be  raised;  but  costs  of  prosecution  shall  be  paid  into  the 
county  treasury ;  any  town  neglecting  for  one  year,  so  to  expend 
such  money,  forfeits  an  equal  sum  to  any  person  suing  therefor 
in  an  action  of  debt. 

SEC.  118.  Whoever,  whether  a  scholar  or  not,  enters  any 
schoolhouse  or  other  place  of  instruction,  during  or  out  O'f 
school  hours,  while  the  teacher  or  any  pupil  is  present,  and  wil- 
fully interrupts  or  disturbs  the  teacher  or  pupils  by  loud  speak- 


SCHOOL   LAWS  OF   MAINE.  45 

ing,  rude  or  indecent  behavior,  signs  or  gestures,  or  wilfully 
interrupts  a  school  by  prowling  about  the  building,  making 
noises,  throwing  missiles  at  the  schoolhouse,  or  in  any  way  dis- 
turbing the  school,  forfeits  not  less  than  two,  or  more  than 
twenty  dollars,  to  be  recovered  as  aforesaid,  or  on  complaint. 

SEC.   119.     If  a  minor  injures  or  aids  in  injuring  any  school-  gSSn^ 
house,  outbuilding,  utensils  or  appurtenances  belonging  thereto ;  Rabge;  c.  llt 
defaces  the  walls,  benches,  seats  or  other  parts  of  said  buildings  § 
by  marks,  cuts  or  otherwise,  or  injures  or  destroys  any  school 
property  belonging  to  a   town,  such  town  by  a  truant  officer 
thereof,  may  recover  of  his  parent  or  guardian,  in  an  action  of  ^^J» 
debt,  double  the  damage  occasioned  thereby. 

SEC.  120.     Whoever  defaces  the  walls,  benches,  seats,  black- Penalty  for 
boards  or  other  parts  of  any  schoolhouse  or  outbuildings  be- school 

houses. 

longing  thereto,  by  obscene  pictures,   language,   marks  or   de-  R.^,  c.  n, 
scriptions,  shall  be  fined  not  exceeding  ten  dollars,  on  complaint 
made  within  one  year. 

SEC.  121.    If  an  innholder,  confectioner,  or  keeper  of  a  shop,  innhoidera, 
boarding  house,  or  liyery  stable,  gives  credit  for  food,  drink  or  keepers 

and  others, 

horse  or  carriage  hire,  to  any  pupil  of  a  college  or  literary  1°***- 
tution  in  violation  of  its  rules  he  forfeits  a  sum  equal  to  the 
amount  so  credited,  whether  it  has  been  paid  or  not,  to  be  recov* §  125- 
ered  in  an  action  of  debt  by  the  treasurer  of  such  institution; 
half  to  its  use,  and  half  to  the  town  where  it  is  located;  and  no 
person  shall  be  licensed  by  the  municipal  officers  for  any  of  said 
employments,  if  it  appears  that  within  the  preceding  year  he 
had  given  credit  contrary  to  the  provisions  hereof. 

STATE  SCHOOL  FUNDS. 

SEC.  122.     The    treasurer    of    state    shall    keep   a    separate  Permanent 
account  of  all  moneys  received  from  sales  of  lands  appropriated  R^0,1^!!,' 
for  the  support  of  schools  or  from  notes  taken  therefor,  and  of  1903%.  228. 
any  other  moneys  appropriated  for  the  same  purpose ;  and  such 
sum  shall  constitute  a  permanent  school  fund,  which  may  be 
put  at  interest  as  the  legislature  directs.    A  sum  equal  to  six  per 
cent  of  the  amount  of  such  fund,  and  one-half  the  sum  received 
by  the  state  from  the  tax  on  the  franchises  of  savings  banks, 


46 


SCHOOL   LAWS  OF   MAINE. 


Treasurer  to 

apportion 

school  funds. 

R.  S.,  c.  11, 

§  118. 

See  §  §  13,  37. 


— basis 
when  returns 
are  not 
received. 


— school 
funds  not 
to  be  paid 
until  re- 
turns are 
made. 


Mill  tax. 
R.  S.,  c.  11, 

§  119. 

1907,  c.  Ill, 

§2. 


How  as- 
sessed and 
collected. 
R.  S.,  c.  11, 
§  120. 

How  dis- 
tributed. 
R.  S.,  c.  11, 
§  121. 


and  one-half  the  sum  assessed  upon  the  deposits  of  trust  and 
banking  companies,  shall  be  annually  appropriated  to  the  sup- 
port of  common  schools,  and  distributed  among  the  several 
towns  according  to  the  number  of  children  therein  between  five 
and  twenty-one  years  of  age. 

SEC.  123.  The  treasurer  shall,  immediately  after  the  first 
day  of  July,  apportion  to  the  towns  all  the  state  school  funds 
for  the  year,  according  to  the  list  of  children  furnished  by  the 
state  superintendent  of  public  schools,  as  provided  in  section  one 
hundred  and  three.  The  number  of  scholars  belonging  to  a 
town  from  which  either  the  school  committee  or  the  municipal 
authorities  have  failed  to  make  the  returns  required  by  law, 
shall  be  reckoned  by  taking  the  number  used  as  the  basis  of  the 
last  apportionment,  and  deducting  all  scholars  set  off  to  other 
towns,  or  incorporated  into  a  new  town  within  a  year,  and  one- 
tenth  of  the  remainder,  and  the  residue  shall  be  the  basis  of  the 
new  apportionment.  Immediately  after  making  the  apportion- 
ment, the  treasurer  shall  notify  each  town  of  its  proportion, 
which  shall  not  be  paid  to  any  town  until  its  returns,  both  com- 
mon school  and  fiscal,  are  made  to  the  state  superintendent  of 
public  schools,  nor  so  long  as  any  state  tax  assessed  upon  such 
town  remains  unpaid. 

*$EC.  124.  A  tax  of  one  and  one-half  mills  on  a  dollar  shall 
annually  be  assessed  upon  all  the  property  in  the  state  according 
to  the  valuation  thereof,  and  shall  be  known  as  the  mill  tax  for 
the  support  of  common  schools. 

SEC.  125.  This  tax  shall  be  assessed  and  collected  in  the 
same  manner  as  other  state  taxes,  and  be  paid  into  the  state 
treasury  and  designated  as  the  school  mill  fund. 

tSEC.  126.  This  fund  shall  be  distributed  by  the  treasurer  of 
state  on  the  first  day  of  January,  annually,  to  the  several  cities, 
towns  and  plantations  according  to  the  number  of  scholars 
therein,  as  the  same  shall  appear  from  the  official  return  made 
to  the  state  superintendent  of  public  schools  for  the  preceding 
year. 


*  See  also  Chapter  177,  P.  L.  1909,  An  Act  relating  to  the  Common 
School  Fund  and  the  means  of  providing  for  and  distributing  the  same. 

t  See  also  Chapter  198,  P.  L.  1909,  An  Act  for  the  equalization  of 
school  privileges. 


SCHOOL    LAWS   OF   MAINE.  47 

SEC.  127.  All  of  the  school  mill  fund  not  distributed  or 
expended  during  the  financial  year,  shall  at  its  close  be  added 
to  the  permanent  school  fund.  §  122.°' llf 


FUNDS  FROM  SALE  OF  TIMBER  LANDS  TO  BE 

APPLIED  TO  SUPPORT  OF  SCHOOLS. 

(Chap.  7,  Sec.  65,  R.  S.  1903.) 

The  money  arising  from  the  sale  of  timber  and  grass, 
from  trespasses  on  reserved  lands,  paid  into  the  treasury  of  t 
county  in  which  the  township  is  situated,  or  into  the  state  treas- 
ury, constitutes  funds  for  school  purposes,  of  which  the  income 
only  shall  be  expended  and  applied  as  is  by  law  provided. 


INSTRUCTION  IN  FORESTRY  IN  PUBLIC  SCHOOLS. 

(Chap.  7,  Sec.  65,  R.  S.  1903.) 
The   forest  commissioner   shall   take   such  measures   as  the  Elementary 

instruction 


state  superintendent  of  public  schools  and  the  president  of  the  £ 
University  of  Maine  may  approve,  for  awakening  an  interest  in  \  ggi?^.'  100, 
behalf  of  forestry  in  the  public  schools,  academies  and  colleges  §  15' 
of  the  state  and  of  imparting  some  degree  of  elementary  instruc- 
tion upon  this  subject  therein. 


MAINE  SCHOOL  FOR  THE  DEAF. 
(Chapter  446,  Private  and  Special  Laws,   1897.) 

SEC.  i.     The  Maine   School    for  the  Deaf  is  hereby  estab- 
lished— to  be  devoted  to  the  education  and  instruction  of 
and  dumb  children. 


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SCHOOL  LAWS  OF  MAINE:. 


Location. 


Trustees, 
appointment 
and  tenure. 


Duties  of 

trustees. 


— course  of 
study. 


Admission 
and  support 
of  pupils. 


Children 
from  other 
states  may 
be  admitted. 


SEC.  2.  Said  school  shall  be  located  at  Portland,  in  the 
county  of  Cumberland,  and  the  governor  and  council  are  hereby 
authorized,  on  behalf  of  the  state,  to  accept  a  conveyance  from 
the  city  of  Portland  of  the  school  lot,  building  and  fixtures  now 
used  as  a  school  for  the  deaf  in  said  Portland,  upon  the  condi- 
tion that  the  state  shall  hereafter  assume  the  entire  charge, 
responsibility  and  expense  of  maintaining  said  school. 

SEC.  3.  The  government  of  said  school  is  hereby  vested  in  a 
board  of  five  trustees,  to  be  appointed  by  the  governor  with  the 
advice  and  consent  of  the  council,  to  hold  office  for  a  term  of 
five  years,  except,  however,  that  the  trustees  first  appointed 
shall  hold  office,  one  for  one  year,  one  for  two  years,  one  for 
three  years,  one  for  four  years,  and  one  for  five  years. 

SEC.  4.  The  trustees  shall  have  charge  of  the  general  inter- 
ests of  the  school  and  see  that  its  affairs  are  conducted  in 
accordance  with  law  and  such  by-laws  as  they  may  adopt;  they 
may  adopt  by-laws  which  shall  be  valid  when  sanctioned  by  the 
governor  and  council;  they  may  employ  a  principal  and  such 
teachers  and  other  employees  as  they  may  deem  advisable  and 
fix  the  compensation  of  the  same,  subject  to  the  approval  of  the 
governor  and  council;  they  may  from  time  to  time  prescribe 
the  system  of  education  and  course  of  study  to  be  pursued  in 
the  school  and  shall  be  allowed  for  their  services  their  actual 
expenses  and  two  dollars  a  day  when  actually  employed. 

SEC.  5.  With  the  consent  of  its  parent  or  guardian,  the 
trustees  may  admit  to  said  school,  for  a  term  not  exceeding 
twelve  years,  any  deaf  or  dumb  child  residing  in  this  state  and 
not  less  than  five  years  of  age,  who  shall  not  be  withdrawn  or 
discharged  from  said  school,  except  with  the  consent  of  the 
trustees  or  the  governor  and  council,  and  the  sums  necessary  for 
the  support  and  instruction  of  such  children  while  attending  said 
school,  shall  be  paid  by  the  state. 

SEC.  6.  Deaf  and  dumb  children  residing  in  other  states 
may,  at  the  discretion  of  the  trustees,  be  admitted  to  said  school 
upon  the  payment  by  their  parents  or  guardian  of  a  reasonable 
compensation  to  be  fixed  by  the  trustees. 


SCHOOL   LAWS  OF   MAINE.  49 

SUMMER   TRAINING    SCHOOLS   AND   THE   DISTRI- 
BUTION OF  EDUCATIONAL  DOCUMENTS. 

(Chap.  1  88,  Resolves  1901.) 
Resolved,  That  the  sum  of  two  thousand  five  hundred  dollars  summer 


be  appropriated  annually,  from  the  state  school  fund,  to  defray  soo  in 
the  expenses  of  holding  at  least  four  summer  training  schools 
for  teachers  and  for  the  purpose  of  preparing  and  distributing 
among  the  teachers  of  the  schools  and  school  officers  of  this 
state,  outlines,  suggestions  and  directions  concerning  the  man- 
agement, discipline  and  methods  employed  in  teaching,  for  the 
purpose  of  promoting  improved  systems  of  instruction;  said 
schools  to  be  conducted  by  and  said  documents  to  be  prepared 
and  distributed  under  the  direction  of  the  state  superintendent 
of  public  schools.  The  governor  and  council  are  hereby  author- 
ized to  draw  their  warrant  from  time  to  time  for  the  expendi- 
ture of  said  sum,  upon  the  presentation  of  bills  properly 
avouched  by  said  superintendent. 

AN  ACT  TO  PROVIDE  FOR  THE  CARE  AND 

EDUCATION  OF  THE  FEEBLE  MINDED. 
(Chap.  44,  P.  L.    1907,  as  amended  by  Chap.  167,  P.  L.    1909.) 

SEC.  i.     The  state  shall  establish  and  maintain  a  school  forscn0oifor 
the   care  and  education  of   the  idiotic  and   feeble  minded   six  SI0-  and 
years  of  age  and  upward,  which  shall  be  known  as  the  Maine  SS&to 
School  for  Feeble  Minded.  All  such  feeble  minded  persons  sup- 
ported by  towns  in  the  state,  who,   in  the  judgment  of  the 
municipal  officers  of  towns  or  state  board  of  charities  are  capa- 
ble of  being  benefited  by  school  instruction,  shall  be  committed 
to  this  institution. 

SEC.  2.     The  governor  shall,  with  the  advice  of  the  council  Appointment 
appoint  five  persons,  all  of  whom  shall  be  inhabitants  of  this      rustees' 
state  and  one  of  that  number  shall  be  a  female,  to  be  trustees  of 
such  school. 

The  trustees  shall  be  appointed  as  follows:     The  first  three  Tenure 
to  serve  for  two  years,  the  other  two  for  four  years,  and  there- 
after said  trustees  shall  be  appointed  to  serve  for  four  years. 
4 


SCHOOL   LAWS  OF   MAINE. 


Management 
of  school. 


Destitute 
subjects  may 
be  admitted 
as  state 
charges. 


— subjects 
from  other 
states  may 
be  received. 


Governor, 

ex-officio 

trustee. 


Judge  of 
probate  may 
commit  to 
school. 
1909,  c.  167. 


The  said  trustees  shall  have  the  general  management  and 
supervision  of  said  school  and  one  or  more  of  said  trustees  shall 
visit  said  school  as  often  as  once  each  month,  and  said  board  of 
trustees  shall  annually  on  or  before  the  first  day  of  October  of 
each  year  furnish  a  report  to  the  governor  and  council  contain- 
ing a  history  of  the  school  for  the  year  and  a  complete  state- 
ment of  all  accounts,  with  all  the  funds,  general  and  special, 
appropriated  or  belonging  to  said  school  with  a  detailed  state- 
ment of  disbursements. 

SEC.  3.  All  indigent  and  destitute  persons  in  this  state,  who 
are  proper  subjects  for  said  school,  and  have  no  parents,  kins- 
men or  guardian  able  to  provide  for  them,  may  be  admitted  as 
state  charges  and  all  other  persons  in  this  state,  who  are  proper 
subjects  for  said  school  when  parents,  kinsmen  or  guardian 
bound  by  the  law  to  support  such  persons  are  able  to  pay,  shall 
pay  such  sum  for  care,  education  and  maintenance  of  such  per- 
sons as  the  trustees  shall  determine,  and  such  persons  from 
other  states  having  no  such  institution  and  similar  schools  may 
be  received  into  such  school  when  there  is  room  for  them  with- 
out excluding  state  charges,  at  a  cost  to  each  person  or  those 
who  are  legally  responsible  for  their  maintenance  at  a  cost  of 
not  less  than  three  dollars  and  twenty-five  cents  per  week. 

SEC.  4.  The  governor  shall  be,  ex-officio,  a  member  of  the 
board  of  trustees  of  said  school  and  shall  annually  visit  said 
school. 

SEC.  5.  Whenever  it  is  made  to  appear,  upon  application  to 
the  judge  of  probate  for  any  county  and  after  due  notice  and 
a  proper  hearing,  that  any  person  resident  in  said  county  or 
any  inmate  of  the  Maine  Industrial  School  for  girls,  the  State 
School  for  boys,  the  Bath  Military  and  Naval  Orphan  Asylum 
or  any  person  supported  by  any  town,  is  a  fit  subject  for  the 
Maine  School  for  Feeble  Minded,  such  judge  may  commit  such 
person  to  said  school  by  an  order  of  commitment  directed  to 
the  trustees  of  said  school  for  feeble  minded  accompanied  by 
a  certificate  of  two  physicians  who  are  graduates  of  some 
legally  organized  medical  college  and  have  practiced  three  years 
in  this  state,  that  such  a  person  is  a  proper  subject  for  said 


SCHOOL  LAWS   OF    MAINE. 

institution.     Whenever,  upon   such  application,   there  is   occa — compen- 
sion   for   the  judge  of   probate  to   attend   a   hearing  on   days  Judge  of 

probate  for 

other  than  days  fixed  as  the  regular  day  for  holding  the  probate  services, 
court,  said  judge  of  probate  shall  be  allowed  five  dollars  per  day 
for  his  services  and  expenses,  which  shall  be  paid  by  the  county 
treasurer  upon  the  certificate  of  the  county  commissioners. 

SEC.  6.     Any  order  of  committal  under  this  act  shall  be  sub- Order  of 

committal 

ject  to  appeal  in  the  same  manner  by  the  same  persons  and  to  subject  to 
the  same  exent  that  decrees  of  the  judge  of  probate  appointing 
guardians  over  persons  alleged  to  be  insane  or  incompetent  or 
spendthrift,  and  no  committal  under  this  act  shall  bar  habeas 
corpus  proceedings,  but  the  court  upon  habeas  corpus  proceed- 
ings may  confirm  the  order  of  commitment  whenever  justice 
requires.  Any  inmate  of  the  Maine  School  for  the  Feeble  —discharge 

oi  iinnat6. 

Minded  may  be  discharged  by  any  three  of  the  trustees  or  by 
a  justice  of  the  supreme  or  superior  court  of  the  state  whenever 
a  further  detention  in  such  school  in  their  opinion  is  unneces- 
sary, but  any  person  so  discharged  who  was  under  sentence  of 
imprisonment  at  the  time  of  his  commitment,  the  period  of 
which  shall  not  have  expired,  shall  be  committed  or  remanded 
to  prison  for  such  unexpired  time. 

SEC.  7.  Feeble  minded  persons  shall  be  admitted  to  the  insti-  Order  of 
tution  in  the  following  order:  First,  feeble  minded  persons; 
who  are  now  in  public  institutions  supported  entirely  at  public 
expense;  second,  feeble  minded  persons  in  public  institutions 
not  supported  as  aforesaid;  third,  feeble  minded  persons  who 
are  not  in  any  institution  of  the  state,  who  have  no  parents, 
kinsmen  or  guardian  able  to  provide  for  them,  or  who  are  com- 
mitted by  a  judge  of  probate;  fourth,  those  residing  within  the 
state  whose  parents,  kinsmen  or  guardian  bound  by  law  to  sup- 
port such  persons  are  able  to  pay;  fifth,  persons  of  other  states 
whose  parents,  kinsmen  or  guardian  are  willing  to  pay. 

SEC.  8.     The  governor  and  council  shall  select  and  purchase  Governor 
a  suitable  site  for  said  school  and  home  and  the  board  of  trus-  shaiiTeiect1 
tees,  as  soon  as  appointed  and  organized,  shall  proceed  as  soon  chase  suit- 
as  practicable  to  erect  thereon  and  properly  furnish  and  equip 
suitable  buildings  and  structures  to  accomplish  the  objects  set 
forth  in  this  act. 


SCHOOL   LAWS  OF   MAINE. 


Trustees 
to  make 
rules  and 
regulations. 


Governor 
shall  draw 
warrant. 


— accounts 
of  trustees 
shall  be 
audited. 


Appropria- 
tion. 


Compensa- 
tion of 

trustees. 


heating 
plants  to  be 
in  charge 
of  qualified 
person. 


Examined  by 

municipal 

officers. 


SEC.  9.  Said  trustees  shall  have  power  to  make  all  necessary 
rules  and  regulations  as  to  admission  to  said  institution  and  for 
the  government  and  control  of  said  institution  and  its  inmates, 
and  to  do  everything  necessary  to  properly  care  for  and  educate 
the  feeble  minded  of  the  state. 

For  all  bills  contracted  by  the  governor  and  council  as  afore- 
said in  purchasing  a  site  the  governor  shall  draw  his  warrant 
tipon  any  money  in  the  treasury  to  pay  the  same  not  otherwise 
appropriated,  and  all  bills  contracted  by  the  trustees  in  erecting, 
repairing  and  equipping  suitable  buildings  and  operating  the 
institution  shall  each  year  be  audited  by  the  governor  and  coun- 
cil, and  the  governor  shall  draw  his  warrant  upon  any  money 
m  the  treasury  to  pay  the  same  not  otherwise  appropriated. 

SEC.  10.  A  sum  of  money  not  exceeding  sixty  thousand  dol- 
lars shall  be  appropriated  under  this  act  to  be  used  and  ex- 
pended for  the  purposes  therein  named  within  the  next  two 
years. 

SEC.  ii.  The  trustees  shall  receive  five  dollars  per  day 
when  employed  and  actual  expenses. 

SEC.  12.  All  acts  and  parts  of  acts  inconsistent  with  this 
act,  are  hereby  repealed. 

AN  ACT  REQUIRING  STEAM  PLANTS  IN  SCHOOL 
BUILDINGS,  CHURCHES,  AND  OTHER  PUBLIC 
BUILDINGS,  TO  BE  IN  CHARGE  OF  COMPETENT 
PERSONS. 

(Chap.  82,  P.  L.  1907.) 

SEC.  i.  Whenever  any  school  building,  church,  or  other  pub- 
lic building  is  heated  by  a  steam  plant,  located  in,  under  or  near 
such  building,  such  steam  plant  shall  be  in  charge  of  a  person 
qualified  as  provided  by  this  act. 

SEC.  2.  The  municipal  officers  of  any  town  or  city  in  which 
any  of  the  buildings  enumerated  in  the  preceding  section,  heated 
by  steam,  are  located,  shall  require  the  person  or  persons  con- 
templating taking  charge  of  the  steam  plant  for  such  purpose, 


SCHOOL   LAWS  OF   MAINE.  53 

to  be  first  examined  by  them,  and  they  shall  require  him  to  pro- 
duce before  them  proof  of  his  competency  to  have  charge  of 
such  steam  plants;  and  unless  the  person  so  applying  has  been 
licensed  as  an  engineer,  or  has  had  previous  experience  as  a 
machinist,  or  as  an  engineer  of  a  steam  plant,  he  shall  be 
required  to  satisfy  said  municipal  officers  that  he  possesses  the 
requisite  qualifications  and  experience  to  assume  charge  of  the 
particular  plant  which  he  desires  permission  to  operate;  and  if 
said  municipal  officers,  after  such  examination,  are  satisfied 

—  officers 

that  the  applicant  possesses  the  requisite  qualifications  for  such  shaiHssue 
work,  and  is  of  temperate  habits,  they,  or  the  majority  thereof, 
shall  issue  under  their  hands  a  certificate  in  the  following  form: 

STATE  OF  MAINE. 
'City  (or)  Town  of  ..................  : 

Form  of 

This  is  to  certify  that  ...........  having  made  application  certificate. 

to  the  municipal  officers  of  the  city  (or)  town  of  ............  , 

for  permission  to  take  charge  of,  and  operate  a  steam  plant 
located  in  said  city   (or)   town,   (here  describe  the  nature  of 
the  steam  plant  of  which  the  applicant  is  authorized  to  have 
charge,  and  its  location)  ;  and  having  produced  evidence  of  his 
competency  to  act  in  said  capacity,  we  have  issued  to  him  this 
certificate  as  provided  by  chapter  .........  of  the  public  laws, 

approved  on  the  .......  day  of  March,  nineteen  hundred  and 

seven.5 

Said  certificate  when  issued  shall  be  filed  in  the  office  of  the  Certificafo* 

shall  be  filed. 

city  or  town  clerk,  and  such  clerk  shall  issue  and  deliver  to 
said  applicant  a  duly  attested  copy  of  such  certificate,  and  the 
copy  so  issued  shall  be  posted  by  the  holder  thereof,  in  a  con- 
spicuous place  in  or  near  the  room  in  which  the  boiler  to  be 
operated  is  located. 

SEC.  3.     It  shall  be  unlawful  for  the  municipal  officers  of  Unlawful 


.  .  .  .  . 

any  city  or  town  to  issue  the  certificate  provided  for  by  this  act  certificate 

/         J  •'to  applicant 

without  receiving  proof  that  the  person  to  whom  such  CCTtifi- 


cate  is  issued  has  had  experience  in  such  work,  and  is  in  allcatlon- 
respects  qualified  to  discharge  the  duties  referred  to  in  the  cer- 
tificate granted,  and  is  also  of  temperate  habits. 


54 


SCHOOL  LAWS  OF  MAINE:. 


Duty  of 
municipal 
officers  when 
notice  is 
received  of 
in  competency. 


Penalty  for 
violation  of 
this  act. 


When  this 
act  shall 
take  effect. 


SEC.  4.  Whenever  the  municipal  officers  of  any  town  or 
city  receive  notice  in  writing,  signed  by  ten  or  more  of  the 
residents  thereof,  stating  that  the  person  in  charge  of  a  steam 
plant  located  in,  under,  or  near,  any  school  building,  church,  or 
other  public  building  situated  in  said  city  or  town,  and  furnish- 
ing or  supplying  heat  for  such  building,  is  incompetent  for  the 
discharge  of  such  duties,  or  by  reason  of  negligence,  intemper- 
ance, or  any  other  cause,  ought  not  longer  to  remain  in  charge 
of  such  steam  plant,  it  shall  be  the  duty  of  said  municipal  offi- 
cers to  immediately  suspend  temporarily  the  authority  of  such 
person  to  act  in  said  capacity;  and  until  the  investigation  herein 
provided,  can  be  made,  shall  cause  a  person  qualified  as  pro- 
vided by  this  act  to  be  placed  in  charge  of  said  steam  plant; 
and  said  municipal  officers  shall  as  soon  thereafter  as  practi- 
cable, cause  an  investigation  to  such  complaint  to  be  made,  and 
shall  thereupon  inquire  into  the  habits  and  qualifications  of  the 
person  so  complained  of,  and  if  such  person  is,  for  any  reason, 
found  to  be  incompetent  or  unsuitable  to  longer  remain  in 
charge  of  said  steam  plant,  said  municipal  officers  shall  imme- 
diately cause  the  certificate  granted  under  the  provisions  of  this 
act,  to  be  revoked,  and  notice  of  such  revocation  shall  be  filed 
with  the  clerk  of  such  city  or  town,  and  thereupon  said  munici- 
pal officers  shall,  if  such  plant  is  under  their  control,  place  a 
person  qualified  as  herein  provided,  in  charge  thereof;  and  if 
such  steam  plant  is  not  in  charge  of  such  municipal  officers, 
they  shall  give  the  person  or  corporation  having  the  control  of 
such  steam  plant,  notice  of  their  findings,  and  if  such  person  or 
corporation  having  control  of  such  steam  plant,  shall,  after  the 
receipt  of  such  findings,  neglect  or  refuse  to  cause  said  steam 
plant  to  be  placed  in  charge  of  some  person  qualified  under  the 
provisions  of  this  act,  such  person  or  corporation  shall  be  sub- 
ject to  the  penalties  herein  provided. 

SEC.  5.  Every  person  violating  any  of  the  provisions  of  this 
act  shall  be  subject  to  indictment,  and  upon  conviction  thereof 
shall  be  punished  by  a  fine  not  exceeding  fifty  dollars,  or  im- 
prisonment for  a  term  not  exceeding  ninety  days,  or  both,  as 
the  court  in  which  such  conviction  is  obtained,  shall  determine. 

SEC.  6.  This  act  shall  take  effect  the  first  day  of  September 
in  the  year  nineteen  hundred  seven. 


SCHOOL   LAWS  OF   MAINE.  55 

AN  ACT  TO  ENCOURAGE  THE  COMPILING  AND 
TEACHING  OF  LOCAL  HISTORY  AND  LOCAL 
GEOGRAPHY  IN  THE  PUBLIC  SCHOOLS. 

(Chap.  88,  P.  L.  1907,  as  amended  by  Chap.  138,  P.  L.  1909, 
and  Chap.  159,  P.  L.  1911.) 

SEC.  i.     The  governor,  with  the  advice  and  consent  of  the  Governor 
council,  shall  appoint  a  state  historian,  who  shall  be  a  member  point  state 

historian. 

of  the  Maine  Historical  Society  and  whose  duty  it  shall  be  to 
compile  historical  data  of  the  state  of  Maine  and  encourage  the 
teaching  of  the  same  in  the  public  schools.  It  shall  also  be  his— duties 
duty  to  encourage  the  compiling  and  publishng  of  town  his- 
tories, combined  with  local  geography.  It  shall  further  be  his 
duty  to  examine,  and  when  he  decides  that  the  material  is  suit- 
able, approve  histories  of  towns  compiled  as  provided  in  section 
two  of  this  act. 

SEC.  2.     Whenever  any  town  shall  present  to  the  state  his-  May  appn)Te 
torian  material  which  he  considers  suitable  for  publication  asgyjJJ1 
a  history  of  the  town  presenting  the  same,  then  he  may  approve 
of  the  publication  of  a  history  with  the  local  geography  which 
will  be  suitable   for  the  use  in  the  grammar  and  high  school 
grades  of  the  public  schools. 

SEC.  3.     Whenever  material   for  a  town  history  with   local  Towns  pub- 
geography  has  been  approved  by  the  state  historian,  and   the 
same  has  been  published  by  the  town,  and  provision  has  been  stat 
made  for  its  regular  use  in  the  public  schools  of  said  town ;  then 
the  state  treasurer  shall  pay  the  town  so  publishing  a  sum  not 
exceeding  one  hundred  and  fifty  dollars,  provided  that  the  state 
shall  not  pay  to  any  town,  to  exceed  one-half  the  amount  paid 
by  said  town  for  printing  and  binding  said  histories. 

SEC.  4.     The  superintending'  school  committee,  and  the  super-  Board  to 

compile 

intendent  of  schools,   shall  elect  some  citizen  of  the  town  to  history, 
serve  with  them;  and  these  persons  shall  constitute  a  board  to 
compile  a  history  and  the  local  geography  of  the  town  in  which 
they  reside.     Two  or  more  towns  may  unite  in  compiling  and— towns 
publishing  a  history  and  the  local  geography  of  the  towns  form- 
ing the  union.     It  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  superintendent  of 


SCHOOIy   LAWS  OF   MAINE. 


— history  to 
be  placed  in 
state  library. 


Expenses  of 
historian. 


Publication 
of  historical 
data. 
1909,  c.  138. 


— availa- 
bility. 
1911,  c.  159. 


Historical 

sites. 

1909,  c.  138. 


schools  to  forward  two  copies  of  said  history  to  the  Maine  state 
library  and  notify  the  superintendent  of  public  schools  of  the 
title  of  said  history. 

SEC.  5.  All  the  actual  cash  expenses  of  the  said  state  his- 
torian incurred  while  in  the  discharge  of  his  official  duties  shall 
be  paid  on  the  approval  and  order  of  the  governor  and  council, 
and  shall  not  exceed  five  hundred  dollars  per  annum. 

SEC.  6.  The  state  historian  is  authorized  to  expend,  under 
the  direction  of  the  governor  and  council,  any  portion  of  the 
amount  appropriated  by  this  act,  in  the  publication  of  historical 
matter  and  data  relating  to  the  history  of  Maine,  or  in  making 
available  by  card  catalog  and  otherwise  historical  materials  in 
the  possession  of  the  state. 

SEC.  7.  The  marking  of  historical  sites,  as  authorized  by  the 
legislature,  shall  be  under  the  direction  of  the  state  historian. 


Salary  of 
state  super- 
intendent of 
schools. 
1913,  c.  12. 


— shall  em- 
ploy clerk 
who  may 
serve  as 
deputy. 
1909,  c.  125. 


— duties. 


Inconsistent 
acts  repealed. 


AN  ACT  RELATING  TO  THE  STATE  SUPERIN- 
TENDENT OF  PUBLIC  SCHOOLS. 

(Chapter  171,  P.  L.  1907,  as  amended  by  Chapter  125,  P.  L. 
1909,  and  Chapter  12,  P.  L.  1913.) 

SEC.  i.  The  salary  of  the  state  superintendent  of  schools  is 
hereby  established  at  four  thousand  dollars  per  annum.  He 
shall  receive  in  addition  his  actual  cash  expenses  incurred  in 
the  performance  of  his  official  duties  which  sum  shall  be  paid 
out  of  the  specific  appropriation  for  that  purpose.  He  shall 
employ  a  clerk,  who  may  serve  as  his  deputy,  at  a  salary  not 
to  exceed  fifteen  hundred  dollars  annually,  with  necessary  ex- 
penses when  on  official  business  within  the  state,  and  such  other 
clerical  assistance  as  the  governor  and  council  may  deem  neces- 
sary. He  shall  perform  his  official  duties  at  the  office  pro- 
vided for  him  at  the  seat  of  government  and  not  elsewhere,  not 
meaning  however,  to  prohibit  him  from  making  such  necessary 
journeys  and  performing  such  duties  as  are  necessary  or  inci- 
dental to  the  immediate  object  of  such  journey. 

SEC.  2.  All  acts  and  parts  of  acts  inconsistent  with  this  act 
are  hereby  repealed. 


SCHOOL   LAWS  OF   MAINE.  57 

AN  ACT  TO  PROVIDE  SCHOOLS  WITH  FLAGS. 
(Chap.  182,  P.  L.  1907.) 

It  shall  be  the  duty  of  superintendents  of  schools  to  report  tofu^?^dbe 
the  municipal  officers  of  cities,  towns  and  plantations  all  schools schoola- 
within  their  jurisdiction  without  flags,  and  it  shall  be  the  duty 
of  said  municipal  officers  to  furnish  flags  to  all  such  schools,  to 
be  paid  for  by  said  municipalities.  These  flags  are  to  be  used 
in  all  schools  for  the  education  of  the  youth  of  our  state,  to 
teach  them  the  cost,  the  object  and  principles  of  our  govern- 
ment, the  great  sacrifices  of  our  forefathers,  the  important  part 
taken  by  the  Union  army  in  eighteen  hundred  sixty-one  to 
eighteen  hundred  sixty-five,  and  to  teach  them  to  love,  honor 
and  respect  the  flag  of  our  country  that  cost  so  much  and  is  so 
dear  to  every  true  American  citizen. 

SECTION  ONE  OF  AN  ACT  DESIGNATING  THE 
OFFICIAL  FLAG  OF  THE  STATE  OF  MAINE  AND 
DESCRIBING  THE  SAME. 

(Chapter  19,  P.  L.  1909.) 

SEC.  i.  The  flag  to  be  known  as  the  official  flag  of  the  state  state  flag, 
of  Maine  shall  be  of  blue,  same  color  as  the  blue  field  in  theof?cnptK 
flag  of  the  United  States,  and  of  the  following  dimensions  and 
designs:  to  wit,  the  length,  or  height,  of  the  staff,  to  be  nine 
feet,  including  brass  spear-head  and  ferule ;  the  fly  of  said  flag 
to  be  five  feet  six  inches,  and  to  be  four  feet  four  inches  on 
the  staff;  in  the  center  of  the  flag  there  shall  be  embroidered  in 
silk  the  same  on  both  sides  of  the  flag  the  coat  of  arms  of  the 
state  of  Maine,  in  proportionate  size;  the  edges  to  be  trimmed1 
with  knotted  fringe  of  yellow  silk,  two  and  one-half  inches 
wide,  a  cord,  with  tassels,  to  be  attached  to  the  staff  at  the  spear- 
head, to  be  eight  feet  six  inches  long  and  composed  of  white 
and  blue  silk  strands. 


SCHOOL  LAWS  OF  MAINE:. 


Pupils  may 
be  excluded 
from  school 
until 
cleansed, 
cured  and 
disinfected. 


Duty  of 
parents. 


— penalty. 


Youths  in 
unorganized 
townships 
may  attend 
any  second- 
ary school. 


AN  ACT  RELATING  TO  THE  WELFARE  OF  SCHOOL 

CHILDREN. 
(Chap.  31,  P.  L.  1909.) 

SEC.  i.  When  a  teacher  becomes  aware  or  suspects  that  any 
of  the  pupils  attending  his  school  are  in  a  condition  which  ren- 
ders them  a  source  of  offense  or  danger  to  the  other  pupils  in 
school  on  account  of  filthiness,  or  because  they  are  the  bearers 
of  vermin  or  parasites,  or  have  an  infection  or  contagious  dis- 
ease of  the  skin,  mouth  or  eyes,  he  shall  notify  the  superin- 
tendent of  schools,  and  when  a  superintendent  of  schools  knows 
or  learns  that  any  of  the  pupils  attending  any  school  within  his 
jurisdiction,  are  affected  with  any  of  the  conditions,  infections, 
or  diseases  herein  mentioned,  he  shall  notify  the  parents  to 
cleanse  the  clothing  and  the  bodies  of  the  children  and  to  furnish 
them  with  the  required  home  or  medical  treatment,  for  the 
relief  of  their  trouble,  and  the  superintendent  of  schools  may, 
when  he  deems  it  necessary,  exclude  such  children  from  the 
schools  temporarily  or  until  they  may  be  cured,  cleansed  and 
disinfected. 

SEC.  2.  Parents  thus  notified  of  the  condition  of  their  chil- 
dren shall  forthwith  have  them  and  their  clothing  cleansed  and 
shall  promptly  do  what  is  necessary,  or  furnish  them  such  medi- 
cal treatment  as  may  be  required,  to  rid  the  children  of  vermin, 
parasites,  or  contagion ;  and  any  parent  who  fails  to  do  what  is 
required  so  that  the  children  may  return  to  school  with  as  little 
loss  of  time  as  is  possible,  shall  be  guilty  of  a  misdemeanor  and 
shall  be  liable  to  a  fine  not  to  exceed  five  dollars  for  the  first 
offense,  and  not  to  exceed  ten  dollars  for  a  second  or  subsequent 
offense. 

AN   ACT   TO   EXTEND   THE   PRIVILEGES    OF    SEC- 
ONDARY  INSTRUCTION   TO  YOUTHS   RESIDENT 
IN  UNORGANIZED  TOWNSHIPS. 
(Chap.  62,  P.  L.  1909.) 

SEC.  i.  Any  youth  who  resides  with  a  parent  or  guardian  in 
any  unorganized  township  in  which  schools  are  regularly  main- 
tained may  attend  any  secondary  school  in  the  state  to  which  he 


SCHOOL   LAWS  OF   MAINE.  59 

may  gain  entrance  by  permission  of  those  having  charge  thereof, 
provided  said  school  shall  be  of  standard  grade  approved  by 
the  state  superintendent  of  public  schools.  In  such  case  the_tuition 
tuition  of  such  youth  not  to  exceed  thirty  dollars  annually  shall 
be  paid  by  the  state  under  such  provisions  and  regulations  as 
may  be  made  by  the  state  superintendent  and  approved  by  the 
governor  and  council. 

*AN  ACT  FOR  THE  IMPROVEMENT  OF  FREE  HIGH 

SCHOOLS. 
(Chap.  71,  P.  L.  1909.) 

SEC.   i.     No  school  shall  be  regarded  as  a  high  school  within  Classification 
the  meaning  of  any  of  the  provisions  of  chapter  fifteen  of  the  jjyjj*]^ 
revised  statutes  unless  such  school  shall  be  included  in  the  fol- 
lowing classes : 

Class  A.  This  class  shall  include  such  schools  as  maintain  class  A. 
at  least  one  approved  course  of  study  through  four  years  of 
thirty-six  weeks  each  and  of  standard  grade,  together  with 
approved  laboratory  equipment,  and  shall  employ  at  least  two 
teachers,  provided  the  town,  precinct  or  union  maintaining  such 
school  shall  appropriate  and  expend  for  instruction  therein  at 
least  eight  hundred  and  fifty  dollars  annually  exclusive  of  all 
tuition  received. 

Class  B.  This  class  shall  include  such  schools  as  maintain  class  B. 
one  approved  course  of  study  through  at  least  two  years  of 
thirty-six  weeks  and  of  standard  grade  together  with  approved 
equipment,  provided  the  town,  precinct  or  union  maintaining 
such  school  shall  appropriate  and  expend  for  instruction  therein 
at  least  five  hundred  dollars  annually  exclusive  of  all  tuitions 
received. 

Class  C.  This  class  shall  include  such  schools  as  maintain  at  class  c. 
least  one  approved  course  of  study  through  four  years  of  thirty 
weeks  each ;  provided  the  town,  precinct  or  union  maintaining 
such  school  shall  appropriate  and  expend  for  instruction  therein 
at  least  four  hundred  and  fifty  dollars  annually  exclusive  of  all 
tuitions  received. 


See  also  Sections  55-62,  Chap.  15,  R.  S.. 


6o 


SCHOOL   LAWS  OF   MAINE. 


Reimburse- 
ment of 
towns. 


Town  not 
obliged  to 
pay  tuition 
under  sec-  ^ 
tions  63  J , 
and  64, 
chapter 
15,  R.  S. 


Schools  shall 
be  inspected 
annually. 


When  other 

state  aid  •& 
shall  cease. 


SEC.  2.  A  town,  precinct  or  union  maintaining  a  high  school, 
as  defined  in  section  one  of  this  act,  shall  be  reimbursed  by  the 
state  for  two-thirds  of  the  amount  paid  for  instruction  in  such 
school;  but  in  no  case  shall  more  than  five  hundred  dollars  be 
paid  by  the  state  to  a  town,  precinct  or  union  in  any  one  year. 

SEC.  3.  A  town,  precinct  or  union  maintaining  a  high  school, 
as  provided  in  class  A  of  section  one  of  this  act,  shall  not  be 
obliged  to  pay  tuition  under  sections  sixty-three  and  sixty- four 
of  chapter  fifteen.  A  town,  precinct  or  union  maintaining  a 
high  school,  as  provided  in  class  B  of  section  one  shall  not  be 
obliged  to  pay  tuition  under  sections  sixty-three  and  sixty-four 
first  two  years  of  the  course  of  the  class  B  school,  and  for  only 
two  years  of  subsequent  work.  A  town,  precinct  or  union  main- 
taining a  high  school,  as  provided  in  class  C  of  section  one,  shall 
be  obliged  to  pay  tuition  for  such  portion  of  a  four  years  course 
as  may  be  determined  by  the  state  superintendent  of  public 
schools. 

SEC.  4.  All  schools  of  secondary  grade  receiving  state  aid 
shall  be  inspected  annually  under  the  direction  of  the  state 
superintendent  of  public  schools,  and  for  this  purpose  he  shall 
be  authorized  to  expend  not  to  exceed  two  thousand  dollars 
annually,  which  sum  shall  be  paid  from  the  state  appropriation 
for  the  support  of  high  schools;  and  he  shall  determine  what 
schools  are  included  in  the  classification  of  section  one  of  this 
act,  what  schools  maintain  the  courses  of  study,  what  schools 
are  entitled  to  state  aid  and  what  schools  maintain  approved 
courses  for  the  reception  of  tuition  scholars. 

SEC.  5.  After  this  act  takes  effect  all  other  state  aid  for  high 
schools  as  provided  by  law  shall  cease. 


SCHOOL   LAWS  OF   MAINE.  6l 

AN  ACT  ADDITIONAL  TO  CHAPTER  SEVENTY-ONE 
OF  THE  PUBLIC  LAWS  OF  NINETEEN  HUNDRED 
AND     NINE,     ENTITLED     "AN     ACT  •  FOR     THE 
IMPROVEMENT  OF  FREE  HIGH  SCHOOLS." 
(Chap.  196,  P.  L.  1909.) 

SEC.   i.     State  aid  to  free  high  schools  under  the  provisions  state  ajd^ 
of  chapter  seventy-one  of  the  public  laws  of  nineteen  hundred 
and  nine  shall  be  payable  annually  in  the  month  of  December. 

AN    ACT    RELATIVE    TO    THE    APPOINTMENT    OF 

SCHOOL  PHYSICIANS. 

(Chap.  73,  P.  L.  1909.) 

SEC.  i.     The  school  committee  of  every  city  and  town  shall  School 
appoint  one  or  more  school  physicians  and  shall  assign  one  to  J^S®^- 
the  medical  inspection  of  not  over  one  thousand  pupils  of  themi 
public  schools  within  its  city  or  town,  and  shall  provide  them 
with  all  proper  facilities  for  the  performance  of  their  duties 
as  prescribed  in  this  act,  provided,  however,  the  said  committee 
has  been  so  authorized  by  vote  of  town  at  regular  town  meeting 
or  at  a  special  town  meeting  called  for  that  purpose. 

SEC.  2.     Every  school  physician  shall  make  a  prompt  exami-  Duties>f 
nation  and  diagnosis  of  all  children  referred  to  him  as  herein- 
after provided,  and  such  further  examination  of  teachers,  jani- 
tors and  school  buildings  as  in  his  opinion  the  protection  of  the 
health  of  the  pupils  may  require. 

SEC.  3.  The  pupils  so  examined  by  school  physicians  when  JSSm  treated, 
treatment  is  necessary  shall  not  be  referred  to  the  school  phy- 
sicians for  such  treatment  except  the  school  physician  be  the 
regular  family  physician  of  such  pupil,  but  shall  be  referred  to 
the  regular  family  physician  of  such  pupil  through  the  parents 
or  guardian. 

SEC.  4.     The  school  committee  shall  cause  to  be  referred  to  Examination 
a  school  physician  for  examination  and  diagnosis  every  child  afte?absence 
returning  to  a  school  without  a  certificate  from  the  board  of  o? sickness, 
health  or  family  physician  after  absence  on  account  of  illness  or 


62 


SCHOOL   LAWS  OF   MAINE. 


ixception. 


Notice  of 
disease  or 
defects. 


Examination 
of  sight  and 
hearing. 


— notice  to 
parent  or 
guardian. 


State  super- 
intendent of 
schools  shall 
prescribe 
directions 
f9r  tests  of 
sight  and 
hearing. 


— amount  to 
be  expended. 


from  unknown  cause ;  and  every  child  in  the  schools  under  its 
jurisdiction  who  shows  signs  of  being  in  ill  health  or  of  suffer- 
ing from  infectious  or  contagious  dseases,  unless  he  is  at  once 
excluded  from  school  by  the  teacher;  except  that  in  case  of 
schools  in  remote  and  isolated  situations,  the  school  committee 
may  make  such  other  arrangements  as  may  best  carry  out  the 
purposes  of  this  act. 

SEC.  5.  The  school  committee  shall  cause  notice  of  disease 
or  defects,  if  any,  from  which  any  child  is  found  to  be  suffer- 
ing to  be  sent  home  to  his  parents  or  guardian.  Whenever  a 
child  shows  symptoms  of  smallpox,  scarlet  fever,  measles, 
chicken  pox,  tuberculosis,  diphtheria  or  influenza,  tonsilitis, 
whooping  cough,  mumps,  scabies  or  trachomo,  he  shall  be  sent 
home  immediately  or  as  soon  as  safe  and  proper  conveyance 
can  be  found,  and  the  board  of  health  and  superintendent  of 
schools  shall  at  once  be  notified. 

SEC.  6.  The  school  committee  of  every  city  or  town  shall 
cause  every  child  in  the  public  schools  to  be  separately  and  care- 
fully tested  and  examined  at  least  once  in  every  school  year  to 
ascertain  whether  he  is  suffering  from  defective  sight  or  hear- 
ing or  from  any  other  disability  or  defect  tending  to  prevent 
his  receiving  the  full  benefit  of  his  school  work,  or  requiring  a 
modification  of  the  school  work  in  order  to  prevent  injury  to 
the  child  or  to  secure  the  best  educational  results.  Tests  of 
sight  and  hearing  shall  be  made  by  the  teachers  or  by  the  school 
physicians.  The  committee  shall  cause  notice  of  any  defect  or 
disability  requiring  treatment  to  be  sent  to  the  parent  or  guar- 
dian of  the  child,  and  shall  require  a  physical  record  of  each 
child,  to  be  kept  in  such  form  as  the  state  superintendent  of 
public  schools  shall  prescribe  after  consultation  with  the  state 
board  of  health. 

SEC.  7.  The  state  superintendent  of  public  schools  shall  pre- 
scribe after  consultation  with  the  state  board  of  health  the 
directions  for  tests  of  sight  and  hearing,  and  shall  prescribe  and 
furnish  to  the  school  committees  suitable  rules  of  instruction, 
test  cards,  blanks,  record  books  and  other  useful  appliances  for 
carrying  out  the  purposes  of  this  act.  The  state  superintendent 
of  public  schools  may  expend  during  the  year  nineteen  hundred 


SCHOOL   LAWS  OF   MAINE.  63 

and  nine  a  sum  not  greater  than  five  hundred  dollars  for  the 
purpose  of  supplying  the  material  required  for  this  act. 

SEC.  8.  Expenses  which  a  city  or  town  may  incur  by  virtue  mlyebee  that 
of  the  authority  herein  vested  in  the  school  committee  shall  not  Sty ™ town, 
exceed  the  amount  appropriated  for  that  purpose  in  cities  by 
the  city  council  and  in  towns  by  a  town  meeting.  The  appro- 
priation shall  precede  any  expenditure  of  any  indebtedness 
which  may  be  incurred  under  this  act  and  the  sum  appropriated 
shall  be  deemed  sufficient  appropriation  in  the  municipality  where 
it  is  made.  And  such  appropriation  need  not  specify  to  what 
section  of  the  act  it  shall  apply  and  may  be  voted  as  a  total 
appropriation  to  be  applied  in  carrying  out  the  purposes  of  this 
act. 

SEC.  Q.     The  provisions  of  this  act  shall  apply  onlv  to  cities  Applies  to 

cities  and 

and  towns   having  a   population  of   less  than    forty   thousand  towns 
inhabitants.  than  ^^y 

thousand 
inhabitants. 

AN  ACT  RELATIVE  TO  SCHOOL  BUILDINGS. 
(Chap.  88,  P.  L.  1909,  as  amended  by  Chap.  89,  P.  L.  1913.) 

SEC.  i.     It  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  state  superintendent  ofpiansand 
public  schools  to  procure  architect's  plans  and  specifications  f  or  turns  for" 
not  to  exceed  four  room  school  buildings,  and  full  detail  work-  buildings 
ing   plans   therefor.      Said    plans    and    specifications    shall    benched  by 

state  super- 
loaned  to  any  superintending  school  committee  or  school  build- in tendent. 

ing  committee  desiring  to  erect  a  new  school  building.    For  the 
use  of  the  state  superintendent  of  public  schools  in  procuring  _appropri. 
such  plans  and  specifications  the  sum  of  two  hundred  dollars  is  igj^'c.  89. 
hereby  annually  appropriated. 

SEC.  2.     Where  the  plans  and  specifications  prepared  by  theplanaand 
state    superintendent    are   not   used,   all    superintending   school 2S?t?be 
committees    of   towns   in   which   new   schoolhouses   are   to   beapproved> 
erected,  shall  make  suitable  provision  for  the  heating,  lighting 
and  ventilating  and  hygienic  conditions  of  such  buildings,  and 
all  plans  and  specifications  for  any  such  proposed  school  build- 
ings shall  be  submitted  to  and  approved  by  the  state  superin- 
tendent of  public  schools  and  the  state  board  of  health  before 
the  same  shall  be  accepted  by  the  superintending  school  com- 
mittee or  school  building  committee  of  the  town  in  which  it  is 
proposed  to  erect  such  building. 


SCHOOIy   LAWS  OF   MAINE. 


When  school 


3'  In  case  no  sPec*al  building'  committee  has  been 
chosen  by  the  town,  the  superintending  school  committee  shall 
construction.  have  charge  of  the  erection  or  reconstruction  of  any  school 
building,  provided  that  said  superintending  school  committee 
may,  if  they  see  fit,  delegate  said  power  and  duty  to  the  superin- 
tendent of  schools. 


School 
buildings 
shall  have 
proper  exits. 


— kept  in 
repair. 


stairways. 


— jdoors  and 
windows. 


— school 
buildings  of 
more  than 
one  story. 


— when  mu- 
nicipal offi- 
cers shall 
correct 
defects. 


AN   ACT  FOR   THE   SAFEGUARDING   OF   SCHOOLS 

AGAINST  DANGER  FROM  FIRE. 

(Chap.   loo,  P.  L.   1909.) 

SEC.  i.  Any  building  which  is  used  in  whole  or  in  part  as  a 
schoolhouse  shall  be  provided  with  proper  egresses  or  other 
means  of  escape  from  fire  sufficient  for  the  use  of  all  persons 
therein  accommodated.  These  egresses  and  means  of  escape 
shall  be  kept  unobstructed,  in  good  repair  and  ready  for  use. 
Stairways  on  the  outside  of  the  building  shall  have  suitable 
railed  landings  at  each  story  above  the  first,  accessible  at  each 
story  from  doors  or  windows  and  such  stairways,  doors  or  win- 
dows shall  be  kept  clean  of  snow,  ice  and  other  obstructions. 
In  school  buildings  of  more  than  one  story  there  shall  be  at  least 
two  separate  means  of  egress  by  inside  or  outside  stairway,  and 
each  story  above  the  first  shall  be  supplied  with  means  of  extin- 
guishing fire  consisting  of  pails  of  water  or  other  portable  appa- 
ratus, or  of  a  hose  attached  to  a  suitable  water  supply  and  such 
appliance  shall  be  kept  at  all  times  ready  for  use  and  in  good 
condition.  Upon  written  notification  by  the  superintending 
school  committee  that  any  school  building  does  not  meet  the 
specifications  herein  named,  the  municipal  officers  of  the  town 
shall  at  once  proceed  to  correct  the  defects,  and  any  failure  so 
to  act  shall  render  the  town  liable  to  the  provisions  of  section 
sixteen  of  chapter  fifteen  of  the  revised  statutes. 


LAW  RELATING  TO  THE  PROTECTION  OF  LIFE  IN 

BUILDINGS  USED  FOR  PUBLIC  PURPOSES. 
(Chap.  28,  Sec.  37,  R.  S.  1903,  as  amended  by  Chap.  178,  P.  L. 

I9I30 

Doors  to  open       Section  37.     Every  building  intended  temporarily  or  perma- 
1913,  c.  ITS.     nently    for  public   use,   and   every   schoolhouse   of   more   than 


SCHOOL   LAWS  OF   MAINE. 

one  story  in  height,  and  every  school-room  therein,  shall  have 
all  doors,  intended  for  egress,  open  outwards. 

*AN  ACT  RELATING  TO  THE  COMMON  SCHOOL 
FUND  AND  THE  MEANS  OF  PROVIDING  FOR  AND 
DISTRIBUTING  THE  SAME. 

(Chap.  177,  P.  L.  1909.) 
SEC.  i.     A  tax  of  one  and  one-half  mills  on  a  dollar  shall  Assessment 

of  tax  for 

annually  be  assessed  upon  all  of  the  property  in  the  state  accord- 
ing  to  the  valuation  thereof  and  shall  be  known  as  the  tax  for 
the  support  of  the  common  schools. 

SEC.  2.     This  tax  shall  be  assessed  and  collected  in  the  same  HOW  tax 

snail  be 

manner  as  other  state  taxes  and  shall  be  paid  into  the  state  assessed, 
treasury  and  designated  as  the  common  school  fund. 

SEC.  3.     One-third  of  this  fund  shall  be  distributed  by  the  HOW  fund 
treasurer  of  state  on  the  first  day  of  January,  annually,  to  the  distributed, 
several  cities,  towns  and  plantations  according  to  the  number 
of  scholars  therein,  as  the  same  shall  appear  from  the  official 
returns  made  to  the  state  superintendent  of  public  schools  for 
the  preceding  year  and  the  remaining  two-thirds  of  said  fund 
shall  be  distributed  by  the  treasurer  of  state  on  the  first  days  of 
January,  annually,  to  the  several  cities,  towns  and  plantations 
according  to  the  valuation  thereof  as  the  same  shall  be  fixed  by 
the  state  assessors,  for  the  preceding  year. 

SEC.  4.     All  of  the  said   fund  not  distributed  or  expended 
during  the  financial  year,  shall  at  its  close,  be  added  to  the  per-  disp08ed  of- 
manent  school  fund. 

SEC.  5.     All  moneys  provided  by  towns,  or  apportioned  by  AH  money  to 
the  state  for  the  support  of  common  schools,  shall  be  expended 
for  the  maintenance  of  common  schools,  established  and  con- 
trolled by  the  towns  by  which  said  moneys  are  provided,  or  to 
which  said  moneys  are  apportioned. 

SEC.  6.     Sums  received  by  any  city,  town  or  plantation  from  HOW  money 
the  distribution  provided  by  section  three,  shall  be  deemed  to 
raised  by  such  city,  town  or  plantation  within  the  meaning 
revised  statutes,  chapter  fifteen,  section  thirteen,  as  amended. 


*  Additional  to  Sections  124,  125,  126  and  127,  Chap.  15,  R.  S.,  1903. 

5 


66 


SCHOOL   LAWS  OF   MAINE. 


This  act  not 
to  affect 
certain  pro- 
visions of 
the  revised 
statutes. 


SEC.  7.  The  passage  of  this  act  shall  in  no  wise  affect  the 
provisions  of  sections  one  hundred  twenty-four,  one  hundred 
twenty-five,  one  hundred  twenty-six  and  one  hundred  twenty- 
seven  of  chapter  fifteen  of  the  revised  statutes,  or  of  section 
two  of  chapter  one  hundred  and  eleven  of  the  public  laws  of 
nineteen  hundred  and  seven. 


School 
equalization 
fund  set 
aside. 
1913,  c.  182. 


1911,  c.  192. 


— rate 
determined. 
1913,  c.  182. 


Method  of 
distribution. 
1911,  c.  192. 


AN    ACT    FOR    THE    EQUALIZATION    OF    SCHOOL 

PRIVILEGES. 

(Chap.  198,  P.  L.  1909,  as  amended  by  Chap.  192,  P.  L.  1911 
and  Chap.  182,  P.  L.  1913.) 

SEC.  i.  The  treasurer  of  state  shall  immediately  after  the 
first  day  of  July,  nineteen  hundred  thirteen,  and  annually  there- 
after deduct  the  sum  of  forty  thousand  dollars  from  the  state 
school  funds  and  the  same  shall  be  set  aside  and  denominated 
the  school  equalization  fund  which  shall  be  used  in  the  manner 
hereinafter  designated  for  the  purpose  of  aiding  those  towns 
wherein  a  rate  of  taxation  considerably  in  excess  of  the  average 
rate  for  the  state  fails  to  produce  a  school  revenue  sufficient  to 
secure  a  reasonable  standard  of  educational  efficiency ;  provided, 
that  the  rate  of  taxation  hereinbefore  named  for  the  purposes 
of  this  act  shall  be  reckoned  on  the  basis  of  the  amount  actually 
raised  by  taxation  by  the  town  for  the  support  of  common 
schools,  exclusive  of  any  amounts  received  from  the  state. 

SEC.  2.  It  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  state  superintendent  of 
public  schools  to  cause  a  special  investigation  to  be  made  of 
the  educational  facilities  of  such  towns  as  are  included  under 
section  one  of  this  act  and,  whenever  it  appears  to  the  state 
superintendent  that  any  town  should  receive  special  aid  or 
encouragement  for  the  purpose  of  raising  the  standard  of  quali- 
fications of  common  school  teachers  or  of  increasing  the  length 
of  the  school  year  or  otherwise  adding  to  the  efficiency  of  the 
common  schools  he  shall  issue  to  the  governor  and  council  a 
recommendation  relative  thereto  and  the  governor  and  council 
shall  have  authority  to  draw  a  warrant  in  the  favor  of  the 
treasurer  of  said  town  for  the  payment  from  the  equalization 


SCHOOL   LAWS  OF   MAINE.  67 

fund  of  a  sum  which  shall  be  expended  under  the  direction  of 
the  superintending  school  committee  of  said  town  in  accordance 
with  the  recommendation  as  made  by  the  state  superintendent 
of  public  schools  and  within  the  purposes  of  this  act.  The 
state  superintendent  of  public  schools  shall  be  authorized 
expend  for  the  special  investigation  of  educational  facilities 


herein  provided  a  sum  not  to  exceed  two  thousand  dollars  which 
shall  be  deducted  from  the  equalization  fund  and  he  shall 
annually  publish  in  his  printed  report  a  complete  statement  rela- 
tive to  all  disbursements  as  provided  in  this  act. 

SEC.  3.     All  of  the  school  equalization  fund  not  distributed  Fun^d 
nor  expended   during  the   financial  year   shall  at  its   close 
added  to  the  permanent  school  fund. 

LAWS     RELATING     TO     THE     EMPLOYMENT     OF 
WOMEN  AND  CHILDREN  IN  MANUFACTURING  OR 
MECHANICAL  ESTABLISHMENTS  IN  THIS  STATE. 
(Sees.  48  to  54,  Chapter  40,  R.  S.  1903.) 

Section  48.     No  female  minor  under  eighteen  years  of  age,  Hours  of  labor 
no  male  minor  under  sixteen  years  of  age,  and  no  woman  shall  women  in 
be  employed  in  laboring  in  any  manufacturing  or  mechanical  establish-111 
establishment  in   the   state,  more  than  ten  hours  in  any  one 
day,  except  when  it  is  necessary  to  make  repairs  to  prevent 
the  interruption  of  the  ordinary  running  of  the  machinery,  or 
when  a  different  apportionment  of  the  hours  of  labor  is  made 
for  the  sole  purpose  of  making  a  shorter  day's  work  for  one 
day  of  the  week;  and  in  no  case  shall  the  hours  of  labor  exceed  _fift  eight 
fifty-eight  in  a  week;  and  no  male  person  sixteen  years  of  age  houra  a  week< 
and  over  shall  be  so  employed  as  above,  more  than  ten  hours  a 
day  during  minority,  unless  he  voluntarily  contracts  to  do  so 
with  the  consent  of  his  parents,  or  one  of  them,  if  any,  or  guar- 
dian and  in  such  case  he  shall  receive  extra  compensation  for 
his  services;  provided,  hozvever,  that  any  female  of  eighteen 
years  of  age  or  over,  may  lawfully  contract  for  such  labor  for 
any  number  of  hours  in  excess  of  ten  hours  a  day,  not  exceeding 
six  hours  in   any  one  week,  or  sixty  hours  in  any  one  year, 


68  SCHOOI,  LAWS  OF  MAINE;. 

receiving  additional  compensation  the-refor;  but  during  her  mi- 
nority, the  consent  of  her  parents,  or  one  of  them,  or  guardian, 
sha11  be  first  obtained.     Nothing  in  this  section  shall  apply  to 
any  manufacturing  establishment  or  business,  the  materials  and 
w™ichCare°f      products  of  which  are  perishable  and  require  immediate  labor 
ignl^fe.      thereon,  to  prevent  decay  thereof  or  damage  thereto. 

Section  49.     Every  employer  shall  post  in  a  conspicuous  place 
shTnpolt        in   every   room   where   such   persons    are   employed,   a   notice 
hours  of  labor,  printed  in  plain,  large  type,  stating  the  number  of  hours'  work 
required  of  them  on  each  day  of  the  week,  the  exact  time  for 
commencing  work  in  the  morning,  stopping  at  noon  for  dinner, 
commencing  after  dinner,  and  stopping  at  night;  form  of  such 
^otS  °f        printed  notice  shall  be  furnished  by  the  commissioner  of  labor, 
ion,  c.  143.     an(j  sjiajj  ke  approved  by  the  attorney  general.     And  the  em- 
ployment of  any  such  person  for  a  longer  time  in  any  day  than 
—employment  that  so  stated,  shall  be  deemed  a  violation  of  the  preceding  see- 
the deemed     tion,  unless  it  appears  that  such  employment  is  to  make  up  for 

violation.  .  ,  -      ,  ,       . 

time  lost  on  some  previous  clay  of  the  same  week,  in  conse- 
quence of  the  stopping  of  machinery  upon  which  such  person 
was  employed  or  dependent  for  employment. 

vS£t»nfor          Section  50.     Whoever,  either  for  himself,  or  as  superintend- 
1887,  c.  139.     ent,  overseer  or  agent  of  another,  employs  or  has  in  his  em- 
ployment any  person  in  violation  of  the  provisions  of  section 
forty-eight,   and   every  parent  or  guardian   who  permits   any 
minor  to  be  so  employed,  shall  be  punished  by  a  fine  of  not  less 
than  twenty-five,  nor  more  than  fifty  dollars  for  each  offense, 
—certificate     A  certificate  of  the  age  of  a  minor  made  by  him  and  by  his 
gu£dian  °'      parent  or  guardian  at  the  time  of  his  employment,  shall  be  con- 
evidence          elusive  evidence  of  his  age  in  behalf  of  the  hirer,  upon  any 
prosecution  for  a  violation  of  the  provisions  of  section  forty- 
— penalty        eight.    Whoever  falsely  makes  and  utters  such  a  certificate  with 

for  false  . 

certificate.  an  intention  to  evade  the  provisions  of  this  chapter  relating  to 
the  employment  of  minors,  shall  be  subject  to  a  fine  of  one 
hundred  dollars. 

Employers  Section  51.     Any  person,  firm  or  corporation  engaged  in  any 

w5h  em-      '    manufacturing  or  mechanical  business,  may  contract  with  adult 

ployees,  that  .  .  ....... 

a  week's          or  minor     employes  to  give  one  week  s  notice  of  intention  on 

notice  to 

ouit  work,        such  employe  s  part,  to  quit  such  employment  under  a  penalty 

shall  be  given.  '  J 

1887,  c.  139.     forfeiture  of  one  week's  wages.     In  such  case,  the  employer 


SCHOOL   LAWS  OF   MAINE.  69 

shall  be  required  to  give  a  like  notice  of  intention  to  discharge' 
the  employe;  and  on  failure,  shall  pay  to  such  employe,  a  sum 
equal  to  one  week's  wages.  No  such  forfeiture  shall  be 
enforced  when  the  leaving  or  discharge  of  the  employe  is  for 
a  reasonable  cause.  Provided,  however,  that  the  enforcement 
of  the  penalty  aforesaid,  shall  not  prevent  either  party  from 
recovering  damages  for  a  breach  of  the  contract  of  hire. 

Section  52.     No  child  under  fourteen  years  of  age  shall  be  fourteen  e 

.  years  of 

employed  or  allowed  to  work  in  or  in  connection  with  any  man-  age,  not  to 

ufacturinef  or  mechanical  establishment.     It  shall  be  unlawful  «*  manufac- 
turing estab- 
for  any  person,  firm  or  corporation  to  employ  for  wages  or  hire  Jjj£ments, 

any  child  under  fourteen  years  of  age  in  any  manufacturing,  J|gJ-  £•  ^ 
mechanical,  mercantile  or  other  business  establishment,  or  in 
any  telephone  or  telegraph  office;  or  in  the  delivery  and  trans- 
mission of  telephone  or  telegraph  messages  during  the  hours 
that  the  public  schools  of  the  town  or  city  in  which  he  resides 
are  in  session.  Whoever,  either  for  himself,  or  as  superintend- 
ent, overseer  or  agent  of  another,  employs  or  has  in  his  employ" 
any  child  in  violation  of  the  provisions  of  this  section,  and 
every  parent  or  guardian  who  allows  any  child  to  be  so  em- 
ployed shall  be  punished  by  a  fine  not  less  than  one  dollar  nor 
exceeding  fifty  dollars  for  each  offense. 

Section  53.     No  child  over  fourteen  years  of  age  and  under  Conditions 

under  which 

sixteen  years  of  age  shall  be  employed  or  allowed  to  work  in  any  a  child 

J  between  the 

manufacturing  or  mechanical  establishment  until  he,  or  some  ages  of  14 

and  16  years 

one  in  his  behalf,  shall  have  produced  and  presented  to  the  maybe 

employed. 

owner,  superintendent,  overseer  or  agent  of  such  establishment,  J|jg»  c.  46^ 
a  certified  copy  of  the  town  clerk's  record  of  the  birth  of  such 
child,  or  a  certified  copy  of  his  baptismal  record  showing  the 
date  of  his  birth;  or  his  passport  showing  the  date  of  his  birth; 
or  an  age  and  schooling  certificate  duly  issued  to  him  as  herein- 
after provided.  No  such  child  between  his  fourteenth  and  fif-— between 

fourteenth 

teenth  birthdays  shall  be  employed  or  allowed  to  work  in  any  a 
manufacturing,  mechanical,  mercantile  or  other  business  estab- 
lishment, or  in  any  telephone  or  telegraph  office;  or  in  the  de- 
livery and  transmission  of  telephone  or  telegraph  messages  dur- 
ing the  hours  in  which  the  public  schools  of  the  city  or  town 
in  which  he  resides  are  in  session,  until  he  shall  have  produced 


SCHOOL   LAWS  OF   MAINE. 


— between ' 
fifteenth  and 
sixteenth 
birthdays. 


— employer 
shall  keep 
on  file  record 
of  child 
employed. 


— blank  em- 
ployment 
certificates. 


—certificate 
to  be  re- 
turned to 
child  on 
leaving  em- 
ployment. 


— duty  of 
commis- 
sioner of 
labor  to 
examine 
certificates. 
1911,  c.  143. 


— penalty  for 
violation  of 
this  section. 


and  presented  to  the  owner,  superintendent,  overseer  or  agent  of 
such  establishment  an  age  and  schooling  certificate  duly  issued 
to  him  as  hereinafter  provided.  No  such  child  between  his  fif- 
teenth and  sixteenth  birthdays  shall  be  employed  or  allowed  to 
work  in  any  manufacturing  or  mechanical  establishment  during 
the  hours  in  which  the  public  schools  of  the  city  or  town  in 
which  he  resides  are  in  session,  until  he  shall  have  produced  and 
presented  to  the  owner,  superintendent,  overseer  or  agent  of 
such  establishment  an  age  and  schooling  certificate  duly  issued 
to  him  as  hereinafter  provided.  The  employer  shall  keep  on  file 
such  birth  record,  baptismal  record,  passport  or  age  and  school- 
ing certificate  in  duplicate  containing  the  name  of  such  child, 
the  name  of  his  parents,  guardian  or  custodian,  and  such  data 
as  may  be  required  by  the  commissioner  of  labor.  Blank  em- 
ployment certificates,  in  form  approved  by  the  attorney  general, 
shall  be  furnished  by  the  commissioner  of  labor.  One  of  such 
certificates  shall  be  delivered  to  such  child  and  the  other  be 
immediately  forwarded  to  the  office  of  said  commissioner  of 
labor  to  be  kept  on  file  by  him.  When  such  child  leaves  such 
employment,  the  employer  shall  return  to  such  child  the  copy 
of  the  town  record,  baptismal  record,  passport  or  age  and 
schooling  certificate  furnished  by  him  as  aforesaid,  and  shall 
immediately  notify  said  inspector  that  such  child  has  left  his 
employ.  The  commissioner  of  labor  or  any  of  his  assistants, 
may  demand  of  any  employer  or  corporation  the  names  of  all 
children  under  sixteen  years  of  age  in  his  employ  in  the  sev- 
eral cities  and  towns  of  the  state,  and  may  require  that  the 
birth  record,  baptismal  record,  passport  or  age  and  schooling 
certificate  of  such  children  shall  be  produced  for  his  inspection,, 
and  the  failure  to  produce  the  same  shall  be  prima  facie  evi- 
dence that  the  employment  of  such  child  is  illegal.  Whoever, 
either  for  himself,  or  as  superintendent,  overseer  or  agent  of 
another,  employs  or  has  in  his  employment  any  child  in  viola- 
tion of  the  provisions  of  this  section,  and  every  parent  or  guar- 
dian who  allows  any  child  to  be  so  employed  shall  be  punished 
by  a  fine  of  not  less  than  one  nor  more  than  fifty  dollars  for 
each  offense. 


SCHOOL   LAWS  OF   MAINE.  71 

Section  54.     Age  and  schooling  certificates  may  be  issued 
the  superintendent  of  schools  of  the  city  or  town  in  which 
child   resides,   or   some   person   designated    and   authorized 
writing  by  the  school  committee,  and  such  age  and  schooling  Jjg-jj  |j-  257. 
certificate  when  duly  issued  shall  excuse  such  child  from  attend-  —excuses 

from  school 

ance  at  public  school;  but  no  person  shall  issue  such  certificate  attendance^ 
to  any  minor  then  in  or  about  to  enter  his  employment,  or  the 
employment  of  a  firm  or  corporation  of  which  he  is  a  member, 
stockholder,  officer  or  employee.  The  person  who  issues  the 
certificate  in  accordance  with  the  provisions  of  this  section  is 
hereby  empowered  to  administer  the  oath  provided'  for  therein, 
but  no  fee  shall  be  charged  therefor. 

Section  55.     An  age  and  schooling  certificate   shall  not 
issued  until  the  child  applying  therefor,  or  some  person  in  his 
behalf,  shall   furnish   satisfactory   evidence   of  the  age  of  the 


child,  which  evidence  shall  be  a  certified  copy  of  the  town  clerk's  age?!  child 

record  of  the  birth  of  said  child,  or  a  certified  copy  of  his  bap-?907™c?46.' 

tismal  record,  showing  the  date  of  his  birth,  or  a  passport  show- 

ing the  date  of  his  birth,  or  other  document  satisfactory  to  the 

superintendent  of  schools  or  the  person  authorized  to  issue  such 

age  and  schooling  certificates;  nor  until  such  child  has  demon-  _nor  tm 

strated  his  ability  to  read  at  sight  and  write  simple  sentences  in 

the  English   language,   and  perform  simple  arithmetical 

lems  involving  the  fundamental  processes  of  addition,  subtrac- 

tion, multiplication  and  division,  such  educational  test  to  be  pre- 

pared and  furnished  by  the  superintendent  of  schools  or  the 

school  committee  of  each  city  and  town  in  the  state  ;  or  has  fur- 

nished a  certificate  to  that  effect  signed  by  any  teacher  in  any 

of  the  public  schools  of  the  city  or  town  in  which  such  child 

resides,  or  by  the  principal  of  any   approved   private   school. 

The  superintendent  of  schools,  or  the  person  authorized  to  issue 

.  —certificate  of 

such  age  and   schooling  certificates,  may  require,  in  doubtful  g^icJSnednay 

cases,  a  certificate  from  the  school  physician,  or,  in  case  there  is  1913«  c-  87- 

no  school  physician,  from  the  medical  officer  of  the  board  of 

health  certifying  that  the  child  is  physically  able  to  perform  the 

work  which  it  intends  to  do;   said  certificate  must  be  signed 

Dy  the  child  in  the  presence  of  the  examining  physician.     The 

state    factory   inspector,   his    deputy   or   agent,   may  require   a 


SCHOOL  LAWS  OF  MAINE:. 


Attorney 
general  shall 
prepare  and 
furnish 
form  of 
certificates. 
1907,  c.  46. 
1909,  c.  257. 


similar  certificate,  in  doubtful  cases,  of 'minors  employed  under 
an  age  and  schooling  certificate. 

Section  56.  The  form  of  the  age  and  schooling  certificate 
provided  for  in  section  fifty-three  of  this  act  shall  be  prepared 
and  furnished  to  the  superintendent  of  schools  or  the  school 
committee  of  the  cities  and  towns  by  the  attorney  general  and 
shall  be  substantially  as  follows: 


Form  of 
certificate. 


AGE  AND  SCHOOLING  CERTIFICATE. 

Revised  Statutes,  Chapter   forty,   Section  fifty-three. 

This  certifies  that  I  am  the ,  father,  mother, 

guardian  or  custodian,  of ,  name  of  child,  and 

that  he  was  born  at ,  name  of  city  or  town,  in  the 

state,  or  county,  of on  the  ....  day  of 

in  the  year and  that  at,  his  or  her,  last  birthday 

he  was  ....  years  old. 
City  or  town  and  date. 

: ,Signature  of  parent, 

guardian  or  custodian. 

Then  personally  appeared  before  me  the  above  named, 

name  of  person  signing,  and  having  produced  for  my  inspec- 
tion the record  passport  of  said  child,  made  oath 

that  the  foregoing  certificate  by him  or  her,  signed  is 

true  to  the  best  of 'his  or  her,  knowledge  and  belief. 

Having  no  sufficient  reason  to  doubt  that he  is 

of  the  age  therein  certified,  I  hereby  approve  the  foregoing  cer- 
tificate of name  of  child ;  whose  signature,  written  in 

my  presence,  appears  below ;  whose  height  is feet  and 

inches ;  complexion  is fair  or  dark ;  hair  is 

color.  I  hereby  certify  that he  has  satisfac- 
torily demonstrated ,  his  or  her,  ability  to  read  at 

sight  and  to  write  legible  simple  sentences  in  the  English  lan- 
guage, and  to  employ  the  fundamental  principles  of  arithmetic, 
according  to  the  test  supplied  by  the  local  superintendent  of 
public  schools;  that  he  has  presented  us  a  certificate  to  that 
effect  signed  by  the  principal  a  teacher  of  some  public  school  in 
said  town,  or  that  he  has  presented  a  certificate  signed  by  the 
principal  of  an  evening  school  in  said  town  to  the  effect  that  he, 
said  child  is  a  regular  attendant  in  said  evening  school. 


SCHOOL   LAWS  OF   MAINE.  73 

This  certificate  belongs  to ,  name  of  child, 

and  is  to  be  surrendered  to ,  him  or  her,  whenever 

he  leaves  the  service  of  the  employer  holding  the  same,  but  if 
not  claimed  by  said  minor  within  thirty  days   from  the  time 

when he  leaves  such  employment,  it  shall  be  returned 

to  the  superintendent  of  schools,  or  to  the  person  by  whom  it  is 

issued. 

Signature  of  child. 

Signature  of  person  authorized  to  issue  and 
approve,  with  official  character  or  authority. 
City  and  town  and  date. 

Whoever,   being   authorized  to   sign  the    foregoing  age   and  Penaity  fc 
schooling  certificate,  or  whoever  signing  any  certified  copy  of 


a  town  clerk's  record  of  births,  or  certified  copy  of  a  child's  p?piSent- 
baptismal  record,  shall  knowingly  certify  to  any  false  statement  SSe°cdn- " 
therein,  and  any  parent  or  guardian  who  presents,  or  who  per-  statement, 
mits  or  allows  any  child  under  his  control  to  present,  to  any 
employer,  owner,  superintendent,  overseer  or  agent  as  required 
under  section  fifty-three,  any  certified  copy  of  birth  or  baptismal 
record,  or  passport,  or  age  and  schooling  certificate  containing 
any  false  statements  as  to  the  date  of  birth  or  age  of  such  child, 
knowing  them  to  be  false,  shall  be  punished  by  a  fine  of  not  less 
than  twenty-five  dollars  nor  more  than  fifty  dollars   for  each 
offense. 

Section  57.     Nothing   in   the   nine   preceding    sections    shall  apply  to  es- 

*  tablishmenta, 

apply  to  any  manufacturing  establishment  or  business,  the  ma- 
terials  and  products  of  which  are  perishable  and  require  imme-  p 
diate  labor  thereon,  to  prevent  decay  thereof  or  damage  there-  H^  J;  357. 
to.     Provided,   however,   the   employment  of  children  therein  _provigo. 
shall  be  under  the  supervision  of  said  inspector  who  shall  on 
complaint  investigate  the  sanitary  conditions,  hours  of  labor  and 
other  conditions  detrimental  to  children,  and  if  in  his  judgment 
he  finds  detrimental  conditions  to  exist,  he  may  in  conjunction 
with  the  municipal  officers  of  the  town  or  city  in  which  the  com- 
plaint is  made,   prohibit  the  employment   of  children  therein 
until  such  conditions  are  removed. 


74 


SCHOOIv   LAWS  OF   MAINE. 


State  super- 
intendent 
shall  inves- 
tigate, advise 
and  aid  in 
matter  of 
industrial 
education. 


Industrial 
courses  shall 
be  introduced 
into  state 
normal 
schools. 


— expendi- 
ture. 
1913,  c.  37. 


Aid  to  towns 
for  courses  in 
elementary 
schools. 


— amount. 


AN  ACT   FOR   THE  ENCOURAGEMENT   OF   INDUS- 
TRIAL EDUCATION. 
(Chap.  1 88,  P.  L.  1911,  as  amended  by  Chap.  37,  P.  L.  1913.) 

SEC.  i.  The  state  superintendent  of  public  schools  shall  be 
charged  with  the  duty  of  extending  the' investigation  of  meth- 
ods of  industrial  education,  he  shall  advise  and  aid  in  the  intro- 
duction of  industrial  courses  into  free  high  schools  and  acad- 
emies aided  by  the  state  and  shall  report  on  all  special  schools 
in  which  industrial  education  is  carried  on.  It  shall  be  his 
duty  to  inspect  the  courses  of  study  offered  in  such  free  high 
schools  and  academies  and  he  shall  have  authority  to  approve 
such  courses  in  all  schools  aided  by  the  state. 

SEC.  2.  The  trustees  of  the  state  normal  schools  shall  cause 
to  be  introduced  into  all  of  the  said  normal  schools  such  courses 
in  manual  arts,  domestic  science  and  agriculture  as  will  enable 
their  graduates  to  teach  elementary  courses  in  those  subjects 
in  the  rural  and  grade  schools.  In  not  more  than  one  of  said 
schools  the  course  in  manual  training  shall  be  so  extended  as 
to  offer  opportunity  to  persons  desiring  to  qualify  as  special 
teachers  of  that  branch,  and  in  not  more  than  one  the  course 
in  domestic  science  shall  be  so  extended  as  to  offer  similar 
opportunity  to  persons  desiring  to  qualify  as  special  teachers 
thereof.  For  the  two  special  courses  thus  offered  the  trustees 
are  authorized  to  expend  annually  not  to  exceed  six  thousand 
dollars,  which  shall  be  additional  to  other  sums  appropriated 
for  the  support  of  said  normal  schools  and  which  the  treasurer 
of  state  shall  deduct  from  any  funds  raised  for  the  support  of 
common  schools. 

SEC.  3,  Whenever  the  superintendent  of  schools  of  any 
town  shall  certify  under  oath  to  the  state  superintendent  of  pub- 
lic schools  according  to  form  prescribed  by  the  state  superin- 
tendent, that  instruction  in  manual  training  or  domestic  science 
nas  been  provided  pupils  of  elementary  schools  for  the  year  pre- 
ceding, then  upon  approval  of  such  certificate  of  the  state  super- 
intendent of  schools  state  aid  shall  be  paid  to  the  amount  of 
two-thirds  the  total  salary  paid  each  teacher,  provided  that  the 
amount  so  paid  by  the  state  for  the  employment  of  any  one 


SCHOOL   LAWS  OF   MAINE.  75 

instructor  shall  not  exceed  eight  hundred  dollars  in  one  year 
and  provided  further  that  the  appropriation  made  by  the  town 
for  this  purpose  shall  be  exclusive  of  any  other  sum  received 
from  the  state  for  the  support  of  common  schools  and  of  the 
minimum  requirement  raised  by  the  town  as  prescribed  by  sec- 
tion thirteen  of  chapter  fifteen  of  the  revised  statutes  as  amend- 
ed, and  provided  further  that  the  course  of  study,  equipment —approval, 
and  qualifications  of  instructors  shall  have  been  approved  by  the 
state  superintendent  of  public  schools. 

SEC.  4.     The  superintending  school  committee  having  charge  Aid  for 
of  any  free  high  school  or  the  trustees   of   any   incorporated  Sco^dar? 
academy  may  provide  for  instruction  therein  in  the  principles scl 
of  agriculture  and  the  domestic  and  mechanic  arts.     Whenever 
it  shall  be  made  to  appear  to  the  governor  and  council,  from 
returns  made  as  herein  provided,  that  in  any  free  high  school 
or  academy  instruction  has  been  furnished  during  the  preceding 
year  in  the  principles  of  agriculture,  the  mechanic  arts  or  do- 
mestic science  the  said  governor  and  council  shall  direct  the 
treasurer  of  state  to  pay  to  the  town  supporting  such  free  high 
school  or  to  the  treasurer  of  such  academy  in  addition  to  other —amount, 
state  aid  if  any,  a  sum  equal  to  two-thirds  the  total  expenditure 
for  instruction  in  each  of  said  courses,  provided,  however,  that 
no  school  shall  receive  a  total  in  excess  of  five  hundred  dollars 
in  any  one  year  for  the  support  of  said  courses,  and  provided 
that  state  aid  shall  not  be  allowed  for  any  course  which  has  an 
average  attendance  of  less  than  twelve  students  and  provided 
further  that  such  aid  shall  not  be  granted  unless  the  course  of 
study,   equipment   and   qualifications   of   instructors    shall   first  _approval. 
have    been    approved    by   the    state    superintendent   of   public 
schools. 

SEC.  5.     Chapter  one  hundred  and  two  of  the  public  laws  of  chapter  102, 
nineteen  hundred  and  nine  is  hereby  repealed.  repealed909' 

SEC.  6.     Whenever  the   superintending  school  committee  of  Aid  to  towns 
any  town  shall  have  maintained  during  the  school  year  an  even- 
ing  school   as  provided  by  section  twenty-two  of  the   revised scl 
statutes  said  town  shall  be  reimbursed  by  the  state  a  sum  equal 
to  two-thirds  the  amount  paid  for  instruction  in  such  evening 
school  provided  there  shall  have  been  offered,  in  addition  to 


76 


SCHOOL,  LAWS  OF  MAINE:. 


Establish- 
ment of 

industrial 
schools. 


— support. 


state  aid. 


— amount. 


Appropri- 
ation. 
1913,  c.  37. 


— reports. 


the  subjects  elsewhere  prescribed  for  evening  schools,  courses 
in  free  hand  or  mechanical  drawing,  domestic  science  or  manual 
training  or  the  elements  of  the  trades. 

SEC.  7.     The  superintending  school  committee  of  any  town 
when  authorized  by  vote  of  the  town  shall  establish  and  main- 
tain as  a  part  of  the  public  school  system  of  such  town  a  gen- 
eral industrial  school  for  the  teaching  of  agriculture,  household 
science,  the  mechanic  arts  and  the  trades.     Such  general  in- 
dustrial schools  shall  be  open  to  pupils  who  have  completed  the 
elementary  school  course  or  who  have  attained  the  age  of  fif- 
teen years.     The  authority  and   duties  of  the  superintending 
school  committee  and  of  the  superintendent  of  schools  in  rela- 
tion to  such  industrial  schools  shall  be  the  same  as  in  the  case 
of  the  common  and  high  schools,  but  the  support  of  such  schools 
shall  be  derived   from  funds  raised  in  addition  to  any   sums 
appropriated    for  the   support  of   common   and   high   schools. 
Whenever  it  shall  be  made  to  appear  to  the  governor  and  coun- 
cil that  any  town  has  provided  instruction  in  the  trades  and 
industries  in  a  general  industrial  school  maintained  therein  for 
a  period  of  thirty-six  weeks  during  the  school  year,  and  em- 
ploying at  least  one  teacher  whose  work  is  devoted  exclusively 
to  such  instruction  and  having  an  average  attendance  of  at  least 
twenty  pupils  the  governor  and  council  shall  direct  the  treas- 
urer of  state  to  pay  to  the  treasurer  of  such  town  a  sum  equal 
to  two-thirds  the  total  amount  spent   for  instruction  in  said 
school  provided  that  not  more  than  two  thousand  dollars  shall 
be  paid  by  the  state  to  any  one  town  in  any  year. 

SEC.  8.  For  the  purposes  of  this  act  there  shall  be  de- 
ducted annually  by  the  treasurer  of  state  from  the  school  and 
mill  fund  the  sum  of  forty  thousand  dollars  and  any  of  this 
amount  so  deducted  that  is  not  apportioned  during  the  financial 
year  shall  at  its  close  be  added  to  the  permanent  school  fund. 
All  reports  required  under  this  act  shall  be  filed  annually  with 
the  state  superintendent  of  public  schools  on  or  before  the  first 
day  of  July  and  state  aid  shall  be  payable  during  the  month  of 
December  next  succeeding. 


SCHOOL   LAWS  OF  MAINE.  77 

AN  ACT  TO  SAVE  TOWN  OFFICERS  THE  EXPENSE 
OF  JURATS  UPON  CERTAIN  RETURNS. 

(Chap.  15,  P.  L.  1913.) 
Section  I.     Town  or  municipal  officers,  who  have  been  duly  Town  officers 


sworn  to  the  faithful  performance  of  their  duty,  shall  not  be  to  t 
required  to  make  oath  or  affirm  to  any  report,  account  or  state-  made  'to  state. 
ment  to  be  filed  with  any  of  the  state  departments. 

Section  2.     Any  acts  or  parts  of  acts  in  conflict  herewith,  a?terepe1aed. 
are  hereby  repealed. 


AN    ACT    TO    PREVENT    THE    ORGANIZATION    OR 
EXISTENCE  OF  SECRET  SOCIETIES  IN  THE  PUB- 

LIC SCHOOLS. 

(Chap.  34,  P.  L.  1913-) 

Pupils 

Section  i.  It  shall  be  unlawful  for  any  pupil  of  any  public, 
elementary  or  secondary  school  to  participate  in  or  be  a  member 
of  any  secret  fraternity  or  secret  society  whatsoever  that  is  in 
any  degree  a  school  organization. 

Section  2.     Superintending    school    committees    are    hereby  gu  erintend 
authorized  to  enforce  the  provisions  of  this  act  and  to  expel 
or    otherwise    discipline    any   pupil    for    failure   or   refusal   to 
comply  with  its  provisions.  of  this  act. 

AN  ACT  TO  PROVIDE  FOR  THE  STATE  CERTIFICA- 

TION OF  ALL  TEACHERS  OF  PUBLIC  SCHOOLS. 

(Chap.  58,  P.  L.  1913.) 

Section  i.  It  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  state  superintendent  of 
public  schools  to  cause  to  be  held  at  least  once  each  year  at  such 
times  and  at  such  places  as  he  may  designate,  public  examination 
of  candidates  for  the  position  of  teachers  in  the  public  schools. 

Section  2.     The  examination  herein  provided  for  shall  test  Tests  re<iuired- 
the  professional  as  well  as  the  scholastic  abilities  of  the  candi-  —  «amin- 

ation  by 

dates  and  shall  be  conducted  by  such  persons  or  agents  and  i 


SCHOOL   LAWS   OF   MAINE. 


— notice  shall 
be  given. 


Certificates 
shall  be  signed 
by  state 
superin- 
tendent. 


— proviso. 


— certificates 
may  be  pro- 
bationary or 
permanent. 

— certificates 
may  be 
granted 
without  ex- 
amination to 
graduates  of 
colleges  and 
Maine  state 
normal  schools, 


— certificates 
may  be  granted 
to  persons 
holding  state 
certificates 
from  other 
states. 


— certificates 
may  be 
revoked. 


List  of  per- 
sons certified 
shall  be  kept. 


Persons  not 
holding  state 
certificates 
shall  not  be 
employed. 


;xception. 


such  manner  as  the  state  superintendent  may  determine.  Due 
public  notices  of  the  times,  places  and  other  conditions  of  the 
examination  shall  be  given. 

Section  3.  Certificates  of  qualification  signed  by  the  state 
superintendent  of  public  schools  shall  be  granted  to  all  candi- 
dates who  pass  satisfactory  examinations  in  such  branches  as 
are  required  or  permitted  by  law  to  be  taught  in  the  public 
schools  and  who  in  other  respects  fulfil  the  proper  require- 
ments, provided,  however,  that  no  person  unless  he  is  seven- 
teen years  of  age  and  has  completed  a  standard  high  school  or 
academy  course  shall  be  eligible  for  a  certificate.  Such  certifi- 
cate shall  be  either  probationary  or  permanent  and  shall  indi- 
cate the  grade  of  schools  which  the  person  named  therein  is 
qualified  to  teach.  Provided,  however,  that  the  certificate  may 
be  granted  without  the  examination  herein  prescribed  to  gradu- 
ates of  colleges  and  Maine  state  normal  schools,  or  of  other  nor- 
mal training  schools  having  a  two  years'  course  for  graduates  of 
high  schools  or  academies,  and  to  teachers  of  two  years'  service 
and  satisfactory  fitness,  on  the  presentation  of  such  evidence  of 
fitness  and  under  such  special  conditions  as  the  state  superin- 
tendent of  public  schools  may  prescribe.  Provided,  further,  that 
certificates  may,  under  the  rules  prescribed  by  the  state  super- 
intendent, be  granted  to  persons  holding  state  certificates 
granted  by  authority  of  other  states.  Provided,  further,  that 
any  certificate  granted  under  this  or  any  preceding  act  may  for 
sufficient  cause  be  revoked  and  annulled. 

Section  4.  A  list  of  persons  so  certificated  shall  be  kept  in 
the  office  of  the  state  superintendent  of  public  schools  and 
copies  of  the  same  with  such  information  as  may  be  desired 
shall  be  sent  to  school  committees  and  superintendents  upon 
their  request. 

Section  5.  No  person  shall  be  employed  to  teach  in  any 
school  under  the  supervision  and  control  of  any  local  school 
board  of  any  city,  town  or  plantation  of  this  state,  after  Sep- 
tember one,  nineteen  hundred  and  fourteen,  who  does  not  hold 
a  state  certificate  as  herein  provided.  Provided,  however,  that 
any  person  not  holding  a  state  certificate  may  be  granted  not 
more  than  one  temporary  non-renewable  teaching  permit  for  a 


SCHOOL  LAWS  OF   MAINE.  79 

period  not  to  exceed  one  year,  such  permit  to  be  issued  upon 
examination  by  the  superintendent  of  schools  of  the  town  in 
vvhich  such  person  is  employed  and  the  form  of  such  permit 
shall  be  prepared  by  the  state  superintendent  of  public  schools 
and  shall  be  furnished  by  him  upon  application  of  the  superin- 
tendent of  schools  of  any  town.  No  person  shall  be  eligible  to 
a  teaching  permit  unless  he  shall  meet  the  requirements  of  sec- 
tion three  in  relation  to  age  and  educational  preparation.  Pro- 
vided, further,  that  all  state  certificates  heretofore  granted 
shall  continue  in  force  in  accordance  with  the  terms  stated 
therein. 

Section  6.     Whoever  teaches   a  public   school  without   first  penalty  for 
obtaining  a  state  teachers'  certificate  or  a  temporary  teaching  J^JfcS^of 
permit  as  herein  provided,  forfeits  not  exceeding  the  sum  con-thlsact< 
tracted  for  his  daily  wages,  for  each  day  he  so  teaches  and  is 
barred  from  receiving  pay  therefor. 

Section  7.     For  the  necessary  expenses  of  carrying  out  the  Appropriation 
provisions  of  this  act  there  may  be  annually  expended  the  sum  out  provisions 
of  one  thousand  dollars,  which  sum  the  treasurer  of  state  shall 
deduct  for  said  purpose  from  any  school  money  raised  for  the 
support  of  common  schools. 

Section  8.     All  laws  and  parts  of  laws  inconsistent  with  the  inconsistent 

f    ,  .  acts  repealed. 

provisions  of  this  act  are  hereby  repealed. 

AN  ACT  TO  INCREASE  THE  EFFICIENCY  OF  THE 
PUBLIC     SCHOOLS     OF     MAINE     BY     RETIRING 
TEACHERS  OF  LONG  SERVICE  WITH  PENSIONS. 
(Chap.  75,  P.  L.  1913.) 

Section  i.     Any  person   of   either   sex  who,    on    September  Teachers  who 
thirtieth,  nineteen  hundred  thirteen,  or  thereafter,  shall  have  £fai£ut\ve 
reached  the  age  of  sixty  years  and  who  for  thirty-five  years  $25o!°n  °f 
shall  have  been  engaged  in  teaching  as  his  principal  occupation, 
and  who  shall  have  been  employed  as  a  teacher  in  the  public 
schools,  or  in  such  other  schools  within  this  state  as  are  sup- 
ported wholly  or  at  least  three-fifths  by  state  or  town  appro- 
priation and  are  under  public  management  and  control,  twenty 


8o 


SCHOOL   LAWS  OF   MAINE. 


—proviso. 


Teachers  who 
may  receive 
an  annual 
pension  of 
$200. 


Teachers  who 
may  receive 
an  annual 
pension  of 
$150. 


Teachers  who 
may  receive 
half  pension. 


years  of  which  employment,  including,  the  fifteen  years  imme- 
diately preceding  retirement,  shall  have  been  in  this  state,  and 
who  shall  be  retired  by  his  employer  or  shall  voluntarily  retire 
from  active  service  after  completion  of  the  school  year  next 
preceding  the  thirtieth  day  of  September,  nineteen  hundred 
thirteen,  shall,  on  his  formal  application,  receive  from  the  state 
for  the  remainder  of  his  life  an  annual  pension  of  two  hun- 
dred and  fifty  dollars;  provided,  however,  that  after  the  thir- 
tieth day  of  September,  nineteen  hundred  thirteen,  no  such 
employment  as  teacher  within  this  state  shall  be  included  in  its 
provisions  unless  the  teacher  shall  hold  a  state  teachers'  certifi- 
cate issued  under  the  authority  of  the  state  superintendent  of 
public  schools. 

Section  2.  Any  person  of  either  sex  who,  on  September 
thirtieth,  nineteen  hundred  thirteen,  or  thereafter,  shall  have 
reached  the  age  of  sixty  years  and  who  for  thirty  years  shall 
have  been  engaged  in  teaching  as  his  principal  occupation  and 
who  shall  have  in  all  other  respects  met  the  requirements  of 
section  one  of  this  act  shall,  on  his  formal  application,  receive 
from  the  state  for  the  remainder  of  his  life  an  annual  pension 
of  two  hundred  dollars. 

Section  3.  Any  person  of  either  sex,  who,  on  September 
thirtieth,  nineteen  hundred  thirteen,  or  thereafter,  shall  have 
reached  the  age  of  sixty  years  and  who  for  twenty-five  years 
shall  have  been  engaged  in  teaching  as  his  principal  occupation, 
and  who  shall  have  in  all  other  respects  met  the  requirements  of 
section  one  of  this  act  shall,  on  his  formal  application,  receive 
from  the  state  for  the  remainder  of  his  life  an  annual  pension 
of  one  hundred  and  fifty  dollars. 

Section  4.  Any  person  who  otherwise  meets  the  require- 
ments of  the  preceding  sections  of  this  act,  but  shall  have  re- 
tired or  shall  have  been  retired  prior  to  the  school  year  next 
preceding  the  thirtieth  day  of  September,  nineteen  hundred 
thirteen,  shall  be  entitled  to  receive  a  pension  under  the  pro- 
visions of  this  act  except  that  the  amount  of  the  pension 
allowed  to  such  person  shall  be  one-half  any  amount  designated 
under  the  foregoing  sections. 


SCHOOL   LAWS  OF   MAINE.  8l 


Section  5.  For  the  purposes  of  this  act  the  sum  of 
thousand  dollars  is  appropriated  for  the  year  nineteen  hundred  p*1""011  fund 
thirteen  and  the  sum  of  twenty-five  thousand  dollars  is  annually 
appropriated  thereafter,  which  sum  the  treasurer  of  state  shall 
deduct  for  said  purposes  out  of  the  school  and  mill  fund  and 
the  sum  so  appropriated  and  deducted  shall  be  denominated 
the  school  pension  fund. 

Section  6.     The   state   superintendent  of  public  schools,  on  state  super- 
or   before  the  thirtieth   day  of   September,   nineteen   hundred  schools  shall 

formulate 

thirteen,  shall  formulate  rules  and  regulations  for  carrying  into  rules. 
effect  the  provisions  of  this  act. 

Section  7.     On  or  before  the  thirty-first  day  of  December,  g 
nineteen  hundred   and  thirteen,  and  quarterly  thereafter,  the 
state  superintendent  of  public  schools  shall  certify  to  the  gov- 
ernor  and  council  the  names  of  the  persons  who  are  entitled  to  to  pensions' 
pensions   under   the  provisions   of   this  act  and  the   amounts 
thereof,  and  the  governor  and  council  shall  draw  warrants  on 
the  treasurer  of  state  for  payments  from  the  said  school  pen- 
sion fund  in  favor  of  said  persons  for  said  amounts.    The  pay- 
ments of  any  pension  shall  be  suspended  whenever  the  person  —payments 
to  whom  said  pension  has  been  granted  resumes  teaching  in  any  suspended. 
private  or  public  school. 

Section  8.     All  pensions  granted  or  payable  under  the  pro-  Pensions  are 

.    .  ,     ,  .  exempt  from 

visions  of  this  act  shall  be  and  are  hereby  made  exempt  from  levy,  etc. 
levy  and  sale  by  virtue  of  an  execution  and  from  all  process 
and  proceeding  to  enjoin  and  recover  the  same  by  or  on  behalf 
of  any  creditor  or  person  having  or  asserting  any  claim  against, 
or  debt  or  liability  of  a  teacher  or  pensioner. 

Section  9.     All  of  the  said  school  pension  fund  not  distrib-  FneJxR?n,<?!d 

luna  snail  be 

uted  or  expended  for  any  financial  year,  shall,  on  the  first  day  gjjf1  to  scbo01 
of  July  next  following,  be  added  to  the  permanent  school  fund. 


SCHOOL  LAWS  OF  MAINE.  83 


INDEX. 


A. 

Section.  Page. 

Abetting    truancy    53  22 

Academies,    aid    to    76  31 

attendance    at     80  32 

courses    at     76  31 

income    of    81  32 

incorporation    of     79  32 

payments    to     77  31 

reports    of     82  32 

towns   providing   free   tuition   in 78  32 

trustees     of     72  30 

Academy    property    72  30 

conveyance    of     73  30 

income    of     74  30 

Adjoining  towns,    attendance   in    50  21 

support   of  high    schools   in 56  23 

Admission    to    schools    25  10 

of  towns  by  joint  committee    40  17 

Admittance  to  Home  for  Feeble  Minded 7  61 

School   for   Deaf    6  48 

Age    certificates     64  71 

of    employment     52  69 

school     27  10 

Agents  of  Schools  in  Unorganized   Townships 96  38 

Annual   pensions   for    teachers    1  79 

report   of    State    Superintendent    100  41 

returns   of    Municipal    Officers    28  11 

Superintendents     37  15 

Appeal  by  owner  of  lot    4  5 

either  party   from   appraisal    9  6 

Applicants   for    Normal    Schools    112  42 

Apportionment   of   school   funds    123  44 

school     funds     1  65 

Appointment  of  Clerk  or  Deputy    1  56 

State    Superintendent    98  39 

school    physicians     1  61 

Appraisement    of    damages    3  4 

notice    of     6  5 

Appropriation  for  Home  for  Feeble  Minded 10  52 

Medical    Inspection     8  63 

Normal    Schools     115  43 

plans   for   school    buildings    1  63 

Salaries   of    Union   Superintendents    43  18 

Schools   in   Unorganized    Townships    97 

Summer    Schools     49 

Teachers'     Examinations     7  79 

pensions      5  81 

Approval   of  bills    36  14 

plans      12  6 

for    new    buildings     1  63 

Arbor    Day     88  34 

Arrest    of    truants     54  23 

Assessment  of  sum   for  lot 7  6 

Assessors,    duties    of    28  11 

Associations,     teachers'     89  35 

expenses    of    89  36 

Attendance,    compulsory    school     49  20 

hitfh    schools    75  30 

iicud.-niics      

public    schools     27  10 


84 


SCHOOL  LAWS  OF   MAINE. 


B. 


Section.         Page. 

Balance    unexpended 15  7 

of    mill    fund     127  47 

Blanks  for  common    school  returns 102  41 

fiscal    returns     101  41 

Blind,    instruction    for    116  44 

Board  of  Trustees  Normal  Schools    113  43 

report    of     113  43 

pupils 2  4 

Boilers,   steam,   in   school  buildings 1  52 

Books,    change   of    35  12 

distribution    of     20  9 

exclusive  use  of    19  g 

for  schools  in  unorganized  townships    96  38 

loss    of     21  9 

purchase    of    35  13 

second    hand     .' 19  9 

towns    shall    provide    19  9 

uniform    system    of    35  12 

Buildings,     plans    for     1  63 

plans    for    12  6 

Business  establishments   may    be   visited 51  21 

c. 

Castine   Normal    School    109  41 

Census,    school,    return   of , 36  15 

may   be   retaken    37  15 

unorganized     townships     92  36 

Certificates,    age    and    schooling     56  72 

attendance   at  conventions    90  36 

engineers'     2  53 

granting     of 36  14 

schooling      56  72 

superintendance    grade     44  19 

teachers'      1  77 

failure  to  secure  87  ,  34 

failure  to  secure  6  79 

grades  of  78 

Change    of   location   of   schools 2  4 

Child    labor     48  67 

illegal      48  67 

Christmas    Day     

Circulars    of    information    100 

Cities,    certain,    having   Charters    31  12 

Classes  of   free  high   school    59 

Classification    of    scholars    35 

Clerks    to   State    Superintendent    

Collectors,    powers   and   duties  of 

College   preparatory    course    76 

presidents      

Columbus    Day    

Committee    approves    plans    

arrange  terms  of   office   30 

election    of 

members  of  shall  not   teach    30 

powers    and    duties    of    

serve    without    pay    

vacancies    in     30 

Commitment   of   truants    54 

to   Home    for   Feeble   Minded    

Common    school    funds    

assessment    of     125 

law    of    1909    1  65 

studies     100  40 

returns      102 

tuition      

Compensation   of   superintendent    

Compulsory    education     46 

unorganized    townships     96  38 

school    age    46  19 

school    age     49  20 

Condition   of    school    children    1  58 

Conference    of    superintendents    42 

Construction  of   school   buildings 3  64 

Continuance    of    school    unions     40  17 

Contract   with   school   committee    62  26 

trustees    of   academy    62  26 


SCHOOL  LAWS  OK    MAINE. 


8=; 


Section.  Page. 

Control  of  schools  maintained   by  gifts 100  40 

Conventions    State     100  39 

Conveyance  of  academy   property    73  30 

common    school    pupils     2  4 

secondary    school    pupils    66 

Cost   of   schooling    In   unorganized    townships 95  37 

Corporate   powers    of   school   district 1 

County    teachers'    associations    89  35 

formation    of     100  40 

Courses  of  study,  selection  of  35  12 

at  academies  76  31 

at  normal  schools  109  42 

at  normal  schools  110  42 

in  free  high  schools  59  25 

Credit    to    students    '    121  45 

D. 

Dates   of   returns,   census    37  15 

common    school     38  16 

fiscal      28  11 

Damages  laying   out   lots 3  4 

Days  to  be  observed  as  school  holidays 88  34 

Deaf,     Maine    school    for 1  47 

Defacing    of    school    buildings 120  45 

Delinquent    towns     16  7 

Deputy    to    State    Superintendent 1  56 

Description   of   flag   of   Maine 1  57 

Destruction   of  school   property 119  45 

Diplomas    at    Normal    Schools Ill  42 

Discharge    of     superintendent 34  12 

Discontinuance    of    schools     2  4 

Dismissal    of    teacher    35  13 

Disposal   of   truants    48  20 

Districts,     school    abolished     1  3 

corporate    powers   of    1          .         3 

organized   by    legislative    act    1  3 

Disturbing   schools,    penalty    for 118  44 

Domestic  Science,    aid  for  courses   in 3  74 

Doors    to  open   outward    37  64 

Dumb    children,    education    of    6  45 

Duties  of  State   Superintendent    100  39 

superintendent    and   committee    34  12 

towns 13  6 

Drawing,    industrial   or    mechanical 23  10 

E. 

Election   of   School    Committees 29  11 

Superintendent      34  12 

Superintendent   of   Union  of   Towns    40  16 

Truant    Officers     51  21 

Employment  of  Children,   illegal    48  67 

Minors,     illegal    48  67 

Teachers      36  15 

Women,     illegal     48  67 

Encouragement    of   Industrial    Education    1  74 

Compiling   local   History    and   Geography 1  55 

English    Course    in    Academies 76  31 

Equalization    of    School    Privileges 1  66 

Establisment   of    Free   High    Schools 56  23 

Union    Schools    18  8 

Evening     Schools     22  9 

aid   to    towns   maintaining    6 

Examination  of  pupils  entering   Secondary   Schools    63  27 

pupils,    medical    4  61 

schools     39  16 

teachers  36  14 

teachers  1  77 

Exclusion   by    committee    49  20 

of    scholars    not    vaccinated    35  13 

Excused   by    committee,    attendance 49  20 


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SCHOOL  LAWS  OF   MAINE. 


Section.         Page. 

Expenditure    by    towns    failing    to    account    for    permanent    school 

fund     14                   7 

of   school   fund    19                   g 

of    school    money 13                   7 

of    school    money    of    plantations 93                 36 

Expenses   of   clerk  or  deputy 1                 53 

State    Superintendent    1                 5(5 

teachers'    conventions    91                 33 

Expulsion  of   scholars    35                 13 

F. 

Failure  of  towns  to  account  for  permanent  school  fund 14                   7 

to    perform    duties     16                   7 

Farmington   Normal    School    ,  109                 41 

Feeble  Minded,    education   of    1                 49 

Fees    for    degrees    84                 33 

Females,   employment   of    48                 67 

Fifty    Schools,    aid    to    superintendents    having    under    their    care 

more    than    42                 18 

Fire  protection  in  schools    1                 64 

Flag    of    Maine    1                 57 

Flags  on  public  schools    ^ 1                 57 

Fog  warning  stations,   scholars  at    26                 10 

Forestry,    instruction    in     65                 47 

Fraternities,    secret    1                 77 

Free  High   Schools,    classification  of    1                 59 

courses   of    study    in    59                 25 

establishment    of     56                 23 

improvement    of     1                 59 

inspection    of     4                  60 

location    of     58                 25 

management    of     60                 26 

money     for     61                 26 

precincts      57                  24 

precincts,    taxes   of    66                 29 

reimbursement     for     2                 60 

returns    of     65                 28 

state    aid    to    1                 59 

to    be    free    59                 25 

Fund,    permanent   school,    failure  to   account  for 14 

equalization      1                  66 

Funds,     free     high     school 56                 22 

from  sale   of  timber  lands    17 

permanent    school     122                 45 

school     122                 45 

G. 

General   Industrial    Schools    7                 76 

Geography  and  history,    teaching   of 55 

Gorham   Normal   School    109 

Grades   of  teachers'    certificates    

H. 

Habitual     truants     52                 22 

Hearing,    examination  of    

on   location  of  lot    6 

High  Schools,   classification   of    

courses    of  study   in    

establishment    of    56 

improvement    of    

inspection     of     4.                 60 

location    of     

management    of    60 

money    for    61                 26 

precincts     

precinct,    taxes  for    66 

returns    for     65 

state    aid    to    

to   be    free    59 

Historian,     State     

Historical    sites     7 


SCHOOL  LAWS  OF   MAINE.  87 

Section.  Page. 

Histories,     town     3  55 

History  and  geography,   compiling  and   teaching  of    1  55 

Holidays,    school    88  34 

Home    for  Feeble   Minded    1  49 

Hygiene,    instruction    in    85  13 

I. 

Illegal  employment   of  minors    2  67 

Improvement   of   free   high    schools    1  59 

Improvements    on    lots    10  6 

Income    of   academies    81  32 

Incorporation   of    academies    79  32 

Independence    Day     ,..  88  34 

Industrial   Education,    encouragement   of    1  74 

Injury  to   school  buildings    119  45 

Inspection,     medical     1  61 

of  free  high  schools    , 4  60 

of   steam    plants    2  52 

Institution!   for  truants    54  23 

Instruction   for   blind    116  44 

in    forestry    65  47 

in   secondary    schools    65  23 

Instructor*   for  youth,    duties   of    86  33 

Inure  to   town,    improvements    10  6 


J. 


Joint  committee  of  union   towns 41  17 

Jurats  on  returns  of  town   officers    1  77 

K. 

Kindness  to  birds  and  animals    86  34 

L. 

Labor,     child     48  67 

Day      88  34 

Laws,    publication   of    school    100  40 

Length    of    terms     17  8 

Life  saving  stations,    scholars  at    26  10 

Light  stations,    scholars  at    26  10 

Lincoln     Day     88  34 

List   of  approved   candidates   for   teachers'    certificates 4  78 

porsons    of    school   age    37  15 

Local    history    and    peopraphy    1 

Location   of   free  high   schools    58  25 

schools      2  4 

sc-hool    from    dwelling    houses    5 

schoolhouse    lots    3  4 

schoolhouse    lots,    erroneous    5  5 

Lots,    schoolhouse    3  4 

erroneous    location     5  6 

M. 

Machias    Normal    School     ,  .  109  41 

Madawaska   Training   School    114  43 

Maine   School   for  Deaf    1  47 

State     Flag     1  57 

Management    of    schools    34 

Manual   Training,    aid   for  courses  In    3  74 

schools     24  10 

direction    of     25  10 

Manufacturing  plants,   may  be  visited  by  truant  officers    51 

Medical     Inspection     

Memorial    Day    

Mill    tax    124  46 


88 


SCHOOL  LAWS  OF   MAINE. 


Mill    tax 

assessment     of     125 

Mill    fund,    distribution   of |.  126  46 

distribution    of    65 

Minimum    school    year    17  g 

Minors,    employment    of    48  67 

Money   for   free   high    schools 61  ?6 

for    schools    13 

how  paid   by  town    15 

Municipal    officers,    duties    of,     28  11 

N. 

Neglect  of  duty  by  truant  officers   51  22 

towns     16  7 

to    choose    committee 32  12 

Normal   School  trustees 113  43 

Normal    Schools     109  41 

appropriation     for     115  43 

industrial  courses   in    74 

Notice   of   appraisement    6  5 

teachers'    examinations     2  78 

Notification  of  delinquent  committees    103  41 

o. 

Office    of    State    Superintendent 99  39 

Official   flag  of  l^Iaine    1  57 

Operation  of  schools  having  too  few  scholars 2  4 

Organization   of   secret   societies    1  77 

P. 

Patriot's    Day     88  34 

Payments   to   academies    77  31 

to   free   high   schools    1  59 

Penal    provisions    affecting    schools    , . .  117  44 

Penalty   for   disturbing   schools    118  44 

Pensions,    teachers'     1  79 

Per   capita   expenditure    19  8 

tax,    unorganized    townships    94  37 

Perkins    Institute     116  44 

Permanent   school   fund    122  45 

failure  to   account  for    14  7 

Physical  condition  of  school  children    1  58 

Physicians,    school    1  61 

Physiology,    instruction    in    35  13 

Plantations  and    unorganized   townships,    schools   in 92  36 

Plans    for    school    buildings    1  63 

to  be  approved  by  committee    12  6 

Precinct,  agent,    money   at  disposal   of   71  30 

free    high    school    24 

formation    of     57  24 

management    of     60  26 

to    be    free    59  25 

taxes     66  29 

assessment    of     67  29 

assessment  of  without  authority    69  29 

Presque   Isle   Normal   School    109  41 

Principals   of    Normal   Schools 109 

Privileges,   secondary   school  in  unorganized   townships    

Proceedings    of   conventions    100 

Property,    destruction   of    school    119 

Protection  of  life  in  buildings  used  for  public  purposes    

schools    from    fire    1 

Pupils  from  out  of  town  in  free  high  schools 59 

Presidents    of    colleges    83 

Q. 

Qualifications  of  Normal  School  applicants    112 

teachers      36 

superintendents   of   union   of   towns    44  19 


SCHOOL  LAWS  OF   MAINE. 


R. 


Section.        Page. 

Raj  sing  money   for  schools    13                  6 

Record    books     100                 40 

Registers,    teachers'     85                 33 

Reimbursement  for  free  high   schools    2                 60 

tuition     paid      64                  28 

J    moval   of   schoolbouse    3                   4 

Report,   annual   of  State   Superintendent    100                 41 

of   Normal  School   trustees    113                 43 

to    town    meeting    39                 16 

Reports   of   academies    82                 32 

Reserved    land    fund     95 

Returns,    annual    of    municipal   officers 

of   Superintendent   of  Schools    37 

to    State    Superintendent    . 

blanks    for    common    school    102                 41 

for   fiscal    101 

of     academies     

of   free    high    schools    65 

of   tuition    payments    

of    union    superintendents     

Reversion   of  lot  to  owner    

s. 

Safeguarding  schools   against  danger  of  fire    64 

Salary    of    union    superintendents    

Sale   of  timber  lands,    funds   from    

Scholars   at  light  stations,    etc 

classification     of     

exclusion    of     

expulsion     of     

School    age     

compulsory      

list   of   persons  of    £? 

books    in    unorganized    townships    

books    (see  text-books) 

buildings,    defacing    of    .- *> 

Injury    to     "9 

plans    for     *  «» 

School    census     f  2 

may   be    retaken    

for    deaf    $1 

for   feeble   minded    ^  JJ 

funds      -  no 

distribution    of     

expenditure    of     J? 

holidays  JJ 

laws     1K  7 

money,  how   paid   by    towns    "?  ' 

of    plantations     ' 

withheld     6{ 

physicians      51 

Schooling    certificates 22  9 

Schools   evening    •  • jg 

fifty,    superintendents   of  more   than.... ** 

in   plantations  and   unorganized   townships    

in    unorganized   townships,    agents   for    •*» 

Normal    and    training     ••• • ™ 

appropriation     for     1«[  « 

summer     49 

appropriation    for    ^  Q 

Second  hand  books  / '  V  V L\" 58 

Secondary  instruction,  unorganized  townships 23 

schools,  instruction  in  ^  7T 

Secret  societies  28  H 

Selectmen,  duties  of  35  33 

Services  of  teachers  6  62 

Sight,  examination  of  7  66 

Sites,  historical  76  31 

State  aid,  academies  55  23 

free   high    schools    M  24 

bavin*  "or;'  than  'fifty'  schools  ". .  42  1| 

union   of    towns    45  19 

withheld      


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Section.        Page. 

educational    conventions     ..................................  100  39 

historian     .................................................  1  55 

school     fund     .............................................  122  45 

superintendent   of  schools    ........""  .........................  98  39 

annual    report    of    ...............  100  41 

appointment    of    .................  98  39 

clerk    of    ........................  1  56 

deputy      .........................  1  56 

duties    of     ......................  100  39 

investigate    industrial    education..  1  74 

office    of    ........................  99  39 

salary    of    .......................  1  56 

Statistics   of   normal   schools    ...................................  109  42 

Steam   plants   in    school    buildings    ..............................  1  52 

Students,    credit    to    ............................................ 

Studies   in   common   schools    —  .  .  ...............................  100  40 

Summer    training    schools    ......................................  100  40 

appropriation    for    .................... 

Superintendence   grade  certificate    ...............................  44 

of   schools    through   the   union   of   towns  .........  40 

Superintendent,    compensation    of    ...............................  33  12 

discharge    of     ..................................  34  12 

election    of     .................................... 

powers    and    duties    of    ......................... 

Superintending  school  committee,    arrange   terms  .................  30  11 

election     of     ..................  29  11 

member   of    shall  not    teach  ....  30 

powers    and    duties    of    ........  34 

secretary    of     .................  36  14 

serve    without    pay    ........... 

vacancies     in     .................  30  11 

Suspension  of   school    ........................................... 

schools   for   conventions    .......................... 

T. 

Tax,    mill,    assessment   of    ...............  .  .......................  * 

for   school   purposes    ................................. 

not  affected  by  error  in   location  of  school  ........  t  ........ 

Teacher,    dismissal    of    ......................................... 

Teachers,    employment    of    ...................................... 

payment   for   services   of    ............................. 

qualifications    of     ..................................... 

Teachers'    associations     ......................................... 

certificates      ......................................... 

certificates      ......................................... 

failure   to    secure    ....................... 

failure    to    secure    ...................... 

grades    of     ............................. 

examinations     ....................................... 

appropriation    for    ..........  ...........  «  y 


pensions 


registers      ........................................... 

Tender  to  be  allowed  in  payment  of  lot  .........................  » 

Terms,    length   of    ..............................................  xi 

Tests  for  sight  and  hearing    ..............  ......................  < 

Text-books,    change    of    ......................................... 

.distribution    of     .................................... 

exclusive   use   of    ................................... 


loss  of  and  damage  to    .............................  J 

purchase    of     ....................................... 

^  £ 

*~ 


second    hand 
town    shall    provide 
uniform    system    of 
Thanksgiving    Day     ................................  55 

T°Wn    ohffice°rsenot  YequiVed"  to  'take  'oath'  to   returns!  \  '.  1 

Towns    delinquent    ..........................  •  ...................  fi 

duties    of     ..............................................  £  OR 

providing   free   tuition   in  academy    ......................  «* 

Training  course    for   teachers    in   academies  ......................  TJ 

school,    Madawaska    ..........  •  •  •  •  •  .................... 

appropriation     for     ................ 

Transportation   of   pupils    „  .  ^^  •  -  —  '-"-  56  23 

Truancy     ............................................... 

abetting     .............................................. 


SCHOOL  LAWS  OF  MAINE;. 


Section.        Page. 

Truant    officers    47  20 

election   of    51  21 

compensation    of     51  22 

duties    of     51  21 

in  •  unorganized   townships    96  38 

neglect    of    duty    by    51  22 

Truants,    arrest   of    54  23 

disposal    of    48  20 

institutions    for    54  23 

Treasurer  of  State  to  apportion  school  money 123  46 

to    be    furnished    with    number    of    persons    of 

school    age     103  41 

Trustees   of    academies    72  30 

normal    schools     113  43 

school   for   deaf    3  47 

school  for  feeble   minded    2  49 

Tuition  in   common  schools    50  21 

secondary    schools    62  26 

returns      64  28 

u. 

Unexpended    balance     15  7 

of   mill    fund    127  47 

Union  of  towns  to  elect  superintendent    40  16 

approval    of     40  16 

continuance    of     40  17 

formation    of    41 

joint    committees    of 41  17 

schools      18  8 

management    of     

superintendents,   appropriation  for  salaries  of   

compensation    of     17 

conference     of      42 

election    of     41  17 

qualifications    of     

Unorganized  townships,   schools  in    

appropriation    for     97 

secondary    instruction  in    1  58 

V. 

Vaccinated,  exclusion  of  scholars  not    35  13 

w. 

Washington    Normal    School     109  41 

Washington's    Birthday     

Welfare    of    school    children    58 

Wtihholding  of   State   aid 

Women,    employment  of    

Y. 

Year,    minimum   school    •  •  17  8 


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